What is "carack"

Usage examples of "carack".

Elan waited a short distance away, her hands clasped over her breast as Carack joined her.

Tigress, the caravel Red Lion, and the carack Wastrel -had sailed the seas, returning heavy-laden with treasure.

With his gems,, they had bought the powerful carack and were now come into port to enlist a crew of lawless rogues from among the Barachan pirates.

So up anchor and take your rotten carack back to whatever port of dreams you hale from.

As the Red Lion swung upwind to port, the wall of fire moved as if to keep itself between the carack and the fleeing galley.

Red Lion came closer and closer to the stern of the galley, those on the carack could see the stern, masklike features of the shaven-skulled magician working with rage.

Red Lion slid up parallel with the stern of the galley, and then the massive stem of the carack crunched into the emerald flank of the galley, with a great snapping and shattering of broken oars.

Red Lion, the carack responded like a mettlesome steed to the tillers.

But what would be so precious to this ship that it would flee our carack like the plague ?

The four of them on the height turned to survey the fair-sized host gathered by the bank of the canal, which must somehow have become wider, for at least half a dozen ships were moored in it -- a Spanish carack, a Phoenician galley, even a dim shape that seemed to be a Roman bireme.

They had brought old sail canvas from the carack and made shelters along the strand, where beef was still roasting and the ale granted them by their captain was doled out sparingly.

The other carack had so far displayed no hostile or alarming intentions.

Neither carack had sighted another ship since taking the southerly course.

It showed a calm sea, in the midst of which lay a lean, graceful carack with all sails set.

He had plunged overside and, gaining a carack, began paddling madly away.