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单词 carrack
释义

carrack

noun

car·​rack ˈker-ək How to pronounce carrack (audio)
ˈker-ik,
ˈka-rək,
ˈka-rik
: a beamy sailing ship especially of the 15th and 16th centuries

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web 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 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

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

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