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holcads

holcads is the plural of holcad.

Meaning of holcad

Noun

holcad (plural holcads)

  1. (historical) A large merchantman ship in Ancient Greece.
    • The storeships provided by the Athenian government , which carried also both sutlers and artificers , were thirty of large burden of the kind called holcads, and a hundred smaller[…]1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece

Questions about holcads

What is holcads the plural of?
Holcads is the plural of holcad.

Words near holcads in the dictionary

  1. Holbrook
  2. Holbrooks
  3. Holbury
  4. HOLC
  5. holcad
  6. holcads
  7. Holcomb
  8. Holcombe
  9. Holcombe Brook
  10. Holcombe Burnell
  11. Holcombes

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