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Definition of Gallivats
1. gallivat [n] - See also: gallivat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallivats
Literary usage of Gallivats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan by Robert Orme (1799)
"The gallivats sfrc large row-boats built like the grab, ... In general the
gallivats are covered with a fpar deck, ..."
2. A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and by India Foreign and Political Dept (1892)
"The English will furnish two fighting gallivats, if required, to give convoy to
the fishing gallivats of ..."
3. A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and by India Foreign and Political Dept (1892)
"The English will furnish two fighting gallivats ... The fishing gallivats that
carry provisions or goods to and from Versova shall be conveyed in their ..."
4. The United Service Magazine by Arthur William Alsager Pollock (1842)
"The gallivats are large row-boats of much the same construction as the grabs,
... The gallivats are propelled through the water by some forty or fifty ..."
5. Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain: From the Year 1727, to the by Robert Beatson (1790)
"In general, the gallivats are covered with a fpar deck, made, ... Eight or ten
grabs, and from forty to fifty gallivats, ..."
6. A Voyage to the East Indies: Containing Authentic Accounts of the Mogul by John Henry Grose (1772)
"THE gallivats are large row-boats built like the grab, ... In general the gallivats
are covered with a fpar deck, ..."
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