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zebec

zebec is the alternative spelling 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....

Proper noun capitalized: Zebec

Zebec

  1. A Balkan surname from Serbo-Croatian.

Forms of zebec

pluralzebecs

Origin of zebec

From Serbo-Croatian Zebec.

Questions about zebec

What does zebec mean?
Zebec means a Balkan surname from Serbo-Croatian.
What is zebec the alternative spelling of?
Zebec is the alternative spelling of xebec.
What part of speech is zebec?
Zebec is a proper noun.

Words near zebec in the dictionary

  1. Zeb
  2. Zebadiah
  3. Zebak
  4. Zeballos
  5. zebavidin
  6. zebec
  7. zebeck
  8. zebecks
  9. zebecque
  10. zebecques
  11. zebecs

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