英语词汇“xebec”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

xebec

/ˈziːbɛk

(also zebec)

noun historical

A small three-masted Mediterranean sailing ship with lateen and square sails.After a week or so of smooth sailing, they were becoming accustomed to life aboard the hundred-and-thirty foot long xebec....

The xebec, as in most ship types, possesses origins difficult to trace.
Captain John Frankford, commanding the 18-gun privateer Belvedere out of Philadelphia, had several spirited engagements with French xebecs and privateers off the Spanish coast in the spring of 1799 during the Quasi-War with France.

Origin

Mid 18th century: alteration (influenced by Spanish xabeque) of French chebec, via Italian from Arabic šabbāk.

单词	xebec
释义	xebec /ˈziːbɛk / (also zebec) noun historical A small three-masted Mediterranean sailing ship with lateen and square sails.After a week or so of smooth sailing, they were becoming accustomed to life aboard the hundred-and-thirty foot long xebec.... The xebec, as in most ship types, possesses origins difficult to trace. Captain John Frankford, commanding the 18-gun privateer Belvedere out of Philadelphia, had several spirited engagements with French xebecs and privateers off the Spanish coast in the spring of 1799 during the Quasi-War with France. Origin Mid 18th century: alteration (influenced by Spanish xabeque) of French chebec, via Italian from Arabic šabbāk.
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