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Definition of Carrack
1. Noun. A large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman.
Definition of Carrack
1. n. See Carack.
Definition of Carrack
1. Noun. A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carrack
1. a type of merchant ship [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carrack
Literary usage of Carrack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Original Letters Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1846)
"The Lord Mayor and Citizens of London to Lord Burghley, stating the prices they
can afford to give for certain prize goods taken in a Spanish carrack. ..."
2. History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1868)
"... expedition to Java — Foundation there of the first Batavian trading settlement —
Exploits of Jacob Heemskerk — Capture of a Lisbon carrack — Progress of ..."
3. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1900)
"Within a few weeks one of his captains, Christopher New- port, whom we shall meet
again, brought into Dart- spanish mouth harbour the great Spanish carrack ..."
4. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1907)
"Upon those terms, I have no doubt that I should have allowed Mr. carrack to do
... Now on the part of Mr. carrack, with reference to what I have been ..."
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