carract

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A form of carrack — A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.

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Meanings

nouncarract (plural carracts)

plural carracts

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of carrack.

    Faith, he to night hath boarded a Land Carract, / If it proue lawfull prize, he's made for euer.

    c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 312
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