资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gallivat \Gal"li*vat\, n.[Prob. fr. Pg. galeota; cf. E. galiot,
   galley.] (Naut.)
   A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the
   Malabar coast. --A. Chalmers.