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† carrack, carack Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈkærək|
Forms: 5–6 caryk(e, 5 carikke, careke, karik, carrik(ke, carryk(e, carrake, carryg, 5–7 carak, carack(e, carrike, carricke, 6 carake, caryck, (caracte, carect), carrek(e, 6–7 carike, carick(e, careck(e, carracke, carreck(e, carrick, carrak, 7 (carract), carraque, 7–8 (caract), 7–9 carack, carrack.
[a. OF. carraque, caraque = med.L. carraca, carrica, carica, Sp., Pg. carraca, It. caracca (whence also MDu. kaˈrâke, now kraak), of uncertain origin; see Diez.]
A large ship of burden, also fitted for warfare, such as those formerly used by the Portuguese in trading with the East Indies; a galleon.
c1386Chaucer Sompn. T. 24 Brodder than of a carryk [MSS., carrik, carik, carike, caryke] is the sayl. a1422Hen. V. in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. 31 I. 72 Maistres for owr grete shippes, carrakes, barges, and balyngers. a1422Toma ibid. I. 72 note, Ther be twey new Carrakas of makyng at Bartholem. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliii, With 3 carrickes [v.r. carrikkes, Fabyan carykes] of Jene. 1483Act 1 Rich. III, viii. Preamb., In Caraks, Galeis, and Shippes. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, v. Preamb., Carrykis..of other regions and Cuntreies. 1509–10Act 1 Hen. VIII, xx. §1 Any Carrek or Galey. 1512Wriothesley Chron. (1875) I. 7 A carike of France. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xxvii. 41 Shyppes, careckes, and galyes. 1529Rastell Pastyme, Hist. Brit. (1811) 250 Toke .iii. of the greattest of theyr Caryckes. 1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) U v b, In greate carrackes. 1579North Plutarch 338 (R.) One of the greatest carects or hulkes of the king. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 459 A great Carrick would be skarce able to beare them all. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. iii. ii. 140 Spaine, who sent whole Armadoes of Carrects. 1600Abp. Abbot Exp. Jonah 146 The hugest mightiest Carickes that ever came on the water. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. vii. 1045 The Carraks, and the Argosies of Spaine. 1655Heywood Fort. by Land iv. i. Wks. 1874 VI. 414 With any Carract that do's trade for Spain. 1670Cotton Espernon iii. ix. 441 The wrack of the Carricks. 1703De Foe Sp. Descent Misc. 130 Here a vast Carrack flies, while none pursue. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) II. xvi. 283 Drake..fell in with one of those famous Spanish East Indiamen, called carracks. |