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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 gal·le·on /ˈgæliən/
 西班牙或地中海的大帆船

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gal·le·on n.  Naut. A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel.
    The galleons . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castles.   --Motley.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 galleon
      n : a large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts;
          used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to
          18th centuries