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shebeck

shebeck is the alternative form of xebec.

Meaning of xebec

Noun

xebec (plural xebecs)

  1. A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern.
    • Fourteen Xebecks loaded with Ammunition, Cannon, and other warlike Stores from Majorca, bound to any Part of Italy, where they could be landed for the Uſe of the Spaniſh Army, having got ſafe to Genoa in the latter End of June, Admiral Mathews on board of the Namur, with the Barfleur, Norfolk...1744, “a sea-officer” [Thomas Mathews?], A Narrative of the Proceedings of His Majesty’s Fleet in the Mediterranean, and the Combined Fleets of France and Spain, from the Year 1741, to March 1744....

Forms of shebeck

pluralshebecks

Questions about shebeck

What is shebeck the alternative form of?
Shebeck is the alternative form of xebec.

Words near shebeck in the dictionary

  1. Shebbear
  2. shebean
  3. shebeans
  4. shebeast
  5. shebeasts
  6. shebeck
  7. shebecks
  8. shebeen
  9. shebeened
  10. shebeener
  11. shebeeners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shebeck (page history and authors); xebec (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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