polacre

plural polacres · alternative polacca

1. historicalobsoletenauticalA 17th-century three-masted merchant ship.

   Before the Princess went to Palestine, do you know in what part of the polacre she slept?

   1820, J. H. Adolphus, editor, A Correct, Full, and Impartial Report, of the Trial of Her Majesty, Caroline, Queen Consort of Great Britain, Before the House of Peers; on the Bill of Pains and Penalties, page 95

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   If that be so with respect to the Aum case, what shall we say to the case now established in proof onboard the polacre; that case which they have been unable by any evidence to shake, or by any observation to destroy?

   1822, The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, of the Year 1822, Part 2, page 1137

   As he approached the polacre he was surprised to see a Union Jack being hung over her gunwale.

   2007, David Cordingly, Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane, 1775-1860, page 138