carrack
noun
a merchant vessel having various rigs, used especially by Mediterranean countries in the 15th and 16th centuries; galleon.
carack
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a variation of
carrack.
Example Sentences
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But the carack was still burning, and not a man belonging to her was to be seen.
Through a Dutch captain's over-haste, an 1800 ton carack 'of infinite wealth, laden with the riches of the East and West,' eluded him.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
Mowbray, Audley, Suffolk, Beauchamp, Namur, Tracey, Stafford, Arundel, each has his flag over a scarlet carack, even as mine floats over this.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
With the next morning the Bird Daughter said farewell and went aboard Lame Art's carack.
From Nuala O'Malley by H. Bedford-Jones
She was a large ship of the corvette kind, with something of the carack and something of the polacca about her.
From Marjorie by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
