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carac

carac is the alternative form of carrack.

Meaning of carrack

Noun

carrack (plural carracks)

  1. (historical) A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.
    • They [the English] are all on fire / To purchaſe from the Spaniard. If their Carracks / Come deeply laden, vvee ſhall tugge vvith them / For golden ſpoile.c. 1597–1603 (date written), Thomas Heywood, The Fair Maid of the West. Or, A Girle Worth Gold. The First Part. […], London: […] [Miles Flesher] for Richard Royston, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act...
    Synonyms:
    nau

Forms of carac

pluralcaracs

Questions about carac

What is carac the alternative form of?
Carac is the alternative form of carrack.

Words near carac in the dictionary

  1. carabins
  2. Carabobo
  3. caraboid
  4. Carabost
  5. carabus
  6. carac
  7. caracal
  8. Caracalla
  9. caracals
  10. caracanthid
  11. caracanthids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carac (page history and authors); carrack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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