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‖ traˈbacolo
Also trabaccolo.
[It. trabacolo, -accolo:—med.L. *trabāculum, f. L. trab-em beam, timber (cf. tabernāculum).]
An Italian ship of medium size; a small coasting vessel.
1800E. C. Knight Let. 9 Aug. in Autobiogr. (1960) 221 Had we sailed, as was first intended, in the imperial [Russian] frigate, we should have been taken by eight trabaccoli, which the French armed on purpose at Pisaro. 1809Capt. Hoste in Naval Chron. XXII. 506 A convoy of merchant trabaccolos. 1812Examiner 12 Oct. 648/1 Twelve sail of the enemy's trabaccoloes. 1846Raikes Life Sir J. Brenton 360 Accompanied by three trabacolos for the purpose of landing the troops. [1866Howells Venet. Life vii, Small coasting vessels (trabaccoli at Venice).] |