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carack

carack 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 carack

pluralcaracks

Questions about carack

What is carack the alternative form of?
Carack is the alternative form of carrack.

Words near carack in the dictionary

  1. Caracciolo
  2. Caracciolos
  3. Caraccis
  4. Carachure
  5. Carachures
  6. carack
  7. caracks
  8. caraco
  9. caracoa
  10. caracoas
  11. caracol

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