What is "carracks"

Usage examples of "carracks".

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.

We lost nineteen carracks, and three galleys, with fire damage to another four vessels.

Most of them, most of the troops and most of the cannon, are still behind us: To wit, that fleet of carracks we avoided.