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Definition of Carracks
1. carrack [n] - See also: carrack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carracks
Literary usage of Carracks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient and Modern Ships by George Charles Vincent Holmes (1907)
"They are classified under the names Great Ships, Cogs, carracks, Ships, ...
The carracks were apparently not English-built ships, as all those in the king's ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1883)
"<)d. was due to him for actual wages, independently of the prize- money specially
promised to him for some Genoese carracks captured by him in 1417. ..."
3. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"To pass, where lies less booty to his hands : He Roman carracks mainly falls aboard.
Then grapnels hurled-out; ..."
4. The British Admirals: With an Introductory View of the Naval History of England by Robert Southey, Robert Bell (1833)
"He fell in with some of the great Genoese carracks; and, after an action which
lasted the most part of a summer's day, sunk three and captured three, ..."
5. The English Factories in India, 1622-1623: A Calendar of Documents in the by William Foster (1908)
"It is evidently difficult to intercept the carracks near Goa at that time of the
year, for the weather is bad then and the Portuguese are never later than ..."
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