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xebeck

xebeck is the archaic 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 xebeck

pluralxebecks

Questions about xebeck

What is xebeck the archaic form of?
Xebeck is the archaic form of xebec.

Words near xebeck in the dictionary

  1. xdresses
  2. xdressing
  3. xDSL
  4. xe
  5. xebec
  6. xebeck
  7. xebecks
  8. xebecque
  9. xebecques
  10. xebecs
  11. xebeque

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