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Definition of carrack in English: carracknoun ˈkarəkˈkerək A large merchant ship of a kind operating in European waters from the 14th to the 17th century. Example sentencesExamples - Mary Rose, a 700-ton Portsmouth-built carrack, is still being sprayed with preservative polyethylene glycol to halt decomposition of the timbers - that is expected to finish in 2008-and she will then be slowly dried.
- The Italian city-states kept squadrons of galleys and adapted carracks (merchant ships) to defend their ports against the Ottoman Turks.
- It was, after all, fifteenth century Portuguese carracks loaded to the gunnels with soldiers and guns on the way out and booty heading back that started the whole trend.
- Bigger ships known as carracks, mixing square and lateen sails and weighing up to 1000 tons, could sail further and carry more merchandise than ever before.
- The Chinese, with ships as large as the Portuguese carracks and much more efficient to windward, traded in growing strength throughout South-east Asia, and settled in the area in far greater numbers than Europeans.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French caraque; perhaps from Spanish carraca, from Arabic, perhaps from qarāqir, plural of qurqūra, a type of merchant ship. Definition of carrack in US English: carracknounˈkerək A large merchant ship of a kind operating in European waters in the 14th to the 17th century. Example sentencesExamples - Mary Rose, a 700-ton Portsmouth-built carrack, is still being sprayed with preservative polyethylene glycol to halt decomposition of the timbers - that is expected to finish in 2008-and she will then be slowly dried.
- The Chinese, with ships as large as the Portuguese carracks and much more efficient to windward, traded in growing strength throughout South-east Asia, and settled in the area in far greater numbers than Europeans.
- Bigger ships known as carracks, mixing square and lateen sails and weighing up to 1000 tons, could sail further and carry more merchandise than ever before.
- It was, after all, fifteenth century Portuguese carracks loaded to the gunnels with soldiers and guns on the way out and booty heading back that started the whole trend.
- The Italian city-states kept squadrons of galleys and adapted carracks (merchant ships) to defend their ports against the Ottoman Turks.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French caraque; perhaps from Spanish carraca, from Arabic, perhaps from qarāqir, plural of qurqūra, a type of merchant ship. |