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Definition of xebec in English: xebec(also zebec) noun ˈziːbɛkˈzibɛk historical A small three-masted Mediterranean sailing ship with lateen and square sails. Example sentencesExamples - After a week or so of smooth sailing, they were becoming accustomed to life aboard the hundred-and-thirty foot long xebec.
- The Forte, however, having received intelligence that no other British ship than the Seahorse was cruising in the Archipelago, despatched a squadron, composed of two frigates, two corvette, two mortar-vessels, and some xebecs, upon the service in view.
- Acclaimed naval artist Tony Gibbons illustrates every type of sailing warship from ships of the line, frigates, and sloops to privateers’ schooners, bomb ketches, and xebecs.
- The xebec, as in most ship types, possesses origins difficult to trace.
- The frigates easily outgunned the pirates but had trouble blockading their swift, shore-hugging xebecs.
- Many embraced Mohammedonism to escape slavery and at least some joined the xebecs, the swift three masted boats used by the pirates.
- Captain John Frankford, commanding the 18-gun privateer Belvedere out of Philadelphia, had several spirited engagements with French xebecs and privateers off the Spanish coast in the spring of 1799 during the Quasi-War with France.
- Ships in the game include ships of the line, sloops, xebecs, frigates, gun platforms, and bombards.
- They were the final aria in the long opera which had first joined keel and canvas in the xebecs and dhows of the Mediterranean.
- The awkward xebecs would never be able to outmanoeuvre the British vessels.
- The officers of the xebecs knew they couldn't outmaneuver or outrun the British so they decided to scuttle their craft, toss their armament overboard and escape on foot to the north.
Origin Mid 18th century: alteration (influenced by Spanish xabeque) of French chebec, via Italian from Arabic šabbāk. Definition of xebec in US English: xebec(also zebec) nounˈzibɛkˈzēbek historical A small three-masted Mediterranean sailing ship with lateen and square sails. Example sentencesExamples - The awkward xebecs would never be able to outmanoeuvre the British vessels.
- The Forte, however, having received intelligence that no other British ship than the Seahorse was cruising in the Archipelago, despatched a squadron, composed of two frigates, two corvette, two mortar-vessels, and some xebecs, upon the service in view.
- The officers of the xebecs knew they couldn't outmaneuver or outrun the British so they decided to scuttle their craft, toss their armament overboard and escape on foot to the north.
- The xebec, as in most ship types, possesses origins difficult to trace.
- After a week or so of smooth sailing, they were becoming accustomed to life aboard the hundred-and-thirty foot long xebec.
- Captain John Frankford, commanding the 18-gun privateer Belvedere out of Philadelphia, had several spirited engagements with French xebecs and privateers off the Spanish coast in the spring of 1799 during the Quasi-War with France.
- Acclaimed naval artist Tony Gibbons illustrates every type of sailing warship from ships of the line, frigates, and sloops to privateers’ schooners, bomb ketches, and xebecs.
- Many embraced Mohammedonism to escape slavery and at least some joined the xebecs, the swift three masted boats used by the pirates.
- They were the final aria in the long opera which had first joined keel and canvas in the xebecs and dhows of the Mediterranean.
- Ships in the game include ships of the line, sloops, xebecs, frigates, gun platforms, and bombards.
- The frigates easily outgunned the pirates but had trouble blockading their swift, shore-hugging xebecs.
Origin Mid 18th century: alteration (influenced by Spanish xabeque) of French chebec, via Italian from Arabic šabbāk. |