: a beamy sailing ship especially of the 15th and 16th centuries
Examples of carrack in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebOn September 6, 1522, a Spanish carrack named Nao Victoria arrived in the coastal waters of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain.—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2022 The multi-mast carrack derives from the single-mast cog that dominated European seafaring in the Middle Ages.—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2022 Wearing a magnifying visor, at a table with glues and tweezers and exact
bits of wood, the boy puts together long ships
and carracks in exquisite minute scale.—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018 There’s a cruise on the Esperanza, a three-masted Spanish carrack.—Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2017
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English carrake, from Anglo-French carrak, from Old Spanish carraca, from Arabic qarāqīr, plural of qurqūr merchant ship, from Greek kerkouros light vessel
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