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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Nuala had sent fifty of her men to join Turlough, left twenty to hold her castle, and had ten with her upon the carack.
From Nuala O'Malley by H. Bedford-Jones
With the next morning the Bird Daughter said farewell and went aboard Lame Art's carack.
From Nuala O'Malley by H. Bedford-Jones
Then it was over, and a crowd of weary, overstrained men leaned panting upon their weapons, or lay breathless and exhausted upon the deck of the captured carack.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The master of the galley got aboard over the low waist of the carack, and Brian ordered a dozen of his own green-faced men down into the smaller ship.
From Nuala O'Malley by H. Bedford-Jones
Grief-stricken his corsairs bore him back aboard the carack.
From The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
