carrack
or car·ack
a merchant vessel having various rigs, used especially by Mediterranean countries in the 15th and 16th centuries; galleon.
Origin of carrack
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How to use carrack in a sentence
A dozen men in the tops of the carack were balancing a huge stone with the intention of dropping it over on the English deck.
Sir Nigel | Arthur Conan DoyleSherborne Manor, a rich share in the great carack, a beautiful wife, a child; what more does this man want to make him happy?
Sir Walter Raleigh and his Time | Charles KingsleyThe carack kept her course, but, as Drake drew near, began displaying her colors nervously.
She proposed that Brian take one carack and she the other, but at this Brian laughed.
Nuala O'Malley | H. Bedford-JonesBut the carack was still burning, and not a man belonging to her was to be seen.
British Dictionary definitions for carrack
/ (ˈkærək) /
a galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman in the 15th and 16th centuries
Origin of carrack
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