: a beamy sailing ship especially of the 15th and 16th centuries
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThe 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 exactbits of wood, the boy puts together long shipsand 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
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