Crossword clues for carrack
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carack \Car"ack\, n. [F. caraque (cf. Sp. & Pg. carraca, It. caracca.), LL. carraca, fr. L. carrus wagon; or perh. fr. Ar. qorq[=u]r (pl. qar[=a]qir) a carack.] (Naut.) A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. [Spelt also carrack.]
The bigger whale like some huge carrack lay.
--Waller.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
merchant ship, late 14c., from Old French caraque "large, square-rigged sailing vessel," from Spanish carraca, related to Medieval Latin carraca, Italian caracca, all of uncertain origin, perhaps from Arabic qaraqir, plural of qurqur "merchant ship." The Arabic word perhaps was from Latin carricare (see charge (v.)) or Greek karkouros "boat, pinnacle."
Wiktionary
n. (context now historical English) 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.
WordNet
n. a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman [syn: carack]
Wikipedia
A carrack was a three- or four- masted sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Genoese for use in commerce. They were widely used by Europe's 15th-century maritime powers, from the Mediterranean to northwest Europe, although each region had models of slightly different design. The Portuguese and the Spanish used them for oceanic travel and to explore the world.
With linguistic variation, these ships were called: caracca or nao in the Genoese dialect and in Castillian Spanish; nau in Portuguese; caraque or nef in French; kraak in Dutch and Flemish. The name ‘carrack’ probably derives from the Arab Harraqa, a type of ship that first appeared along the shores of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers roughly during the 9th century.
Carracks were ocean-going ships: large enough to be stable in heavy seas, and roomy enough to carry provisions for long voyages. They were usually square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen- rigged on the mizzenmast. They had a high rounded stern with large aftcastle, forecastle and bowsprit at the stem. As the forerunner of the great ships of the age of sail, the carrack was one of the most influential ship designs in history; while ships became more specialized, the basic design remained unchanged throughout this time period.
Usage examples of "carrack".
Most of the days were bright and breezy, and the cogs, coasters, and carracks made good time toward the free city of Telflamm.
The piers were filled to capacity with cogs and carracks, which were being unladen by longshoremen.
Occasionally they glimpsed the flash of a sail far out in the middle of the river, an argosy or carrack heading for the war, and one day a machine circled the raft before rising up and flying straight toward the misty line of the nearside shore.
A pair of carracks stood four leagues off, but there was no sign of the warship or the picketboat which had pursued them from the burning city to the floating forest.
The falling mast had crashed through the sterncastle and was hanging over the side, dragging the carrack further over.
Carrack was wild to have her, being in bad health, and Jessie Prout cared for the Carracks more than anything else in the world.
Just as he thought that, Benito realized that the carracks at anchor were firing now, not at Vidos Castle keep, but at them.
The carracks had too deep a draft to bring them in the way that those bedamned galleys had run up the beach.
He was scowling ferociously when the senior Byzantine captain of the seven carracks that had just come in from Constantinople arrived.
They were on board their four vessels when they were attacked by a combined fleet of Dalmatian pirates and carracks bearing your banner.
Together, they swooped down to the harbor and circled the round-bellied carracks and longboats moored there.
You could sail within thirty yards of one of the carracks without anyone being the wiser.
The galliots only have to burn our sails and stop the oarsmen from getting a good stroke with a peppering of arrows, and the carracks and their cannon will catch up with us.
But sooner or later the mainsail would go down, more vessels would catch up, and eventually the carracks would get here.
His first experience of being under fire, and the new troops arriving in the carracks, had frightened the bravado out of him.