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‖ barca-longa Obs. Also 7 barqua-, 7–8 barco-longo. [Pg. or OSp.; lit. ‘long barge.’] ‘A large Spanish fishing-boat, navigated with lug-sails, and having two or three masts..common in the Mediterranean.’ Falconer Dict. Marine 1789.
1681Lond. Gaz. 1608/1 With a Sloop and a Barqua-Longa. 1691Ibid. No. 2708/1 The French..have only one Barco Longo..left. 1762More in Phil. Trans. LII. 451 The selfsame barcalonga, or xebeck. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 335 Sent Captain Veale in a barcolongo, attended by two feluccas, to attempt to destroy them. |