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zabra
n. A small sailing vessel used off the coasts of Spain and Portugal.
Usage examples of "zabra".
December, 1605, that two ships and a zabra, or launch, were consigned at Callao to De Quiros for his glorious enterprise.
Capitana, the Almiranta, and one zabra, with Luis Vaez de Torres for his admiral, in order to colonise the island of Santa Cruz, and to follow out the intentions of the adelantado Mendana.
Pedro Fernandez de Quiros left the Almiranta and the zabra in the said bay and himself sailed with his ship, the Capitana, for Mexico, from whence he again came to this court to advocate anew the colonization of that land, and was again sent back to the viceroy of Peru, and died at Panama on his return voyage to Lima.