单词 | carrack |
释义 | carrack/ˈkarək /noun A large merchant ship of a kind operating in European waters from the 14th to the 17th century.The Italian city-states kept squadrons of galleys and adapted carracks (merchant ships) to defend their ports against the Ottoman Turks....
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French caraque; perhaps from Spanish carraca, from Arabic, perhaps from qarāqir, plural of qurqūra, a type of merchant ship. Rhymes |
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