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‖ saic|ˈseɪɪk|
Forms: 7 saich, saicque, 8 shyke, 7–8 saique, 7–9 saic, saick.
[a. F. saïque, ad. Turkish shāīqā.]
A kind of sailing vessel common in the Levant (see quot. 1769).
1667Lond. Gaz. No. 119/2 Two large Saichs laden with Horses, were taken by some of our Vessels in their passage from Napoli di Romania to Canea. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 64 The Saic lay at an Anchor. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 73 They build Saiques, and other Merchants Vessels pretty well. 1704J. Pitts Acc. Mohammetans 63 There are many of the Turks Merchant-Men, navigated by Greeks, which are called by the name of Shykes, somewhat like our English Ketches, of Two or Three Hundred Tun. 1715Comm. Jrnls. 45/1 The Fishing-Ships and Saicks employed at Newfoundland. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Saic, a sort of Grecian ketch, which has no top-gallant-sail or mizen-top-sail. 1813Byron Corsair ii. iv, From Scalanovo's port to Scio's isle, The Saick was bound. 1834[Morier] Ayesha III. 31 The bark..which was called a saique, was square-rigged. |