Carrack

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  • noun. A large galleon used in the 1300s, 1400s, and 1500s.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See carack.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. See carack.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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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  • noun. a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman
  • Word Usage
    "I suspect, however, that they must have been nearly, if not entirely, decked over -- in fact, that they were what are now called flush-decked vessels, while probably the carrack was a frigate-built ship, or, at all events, a ship with a high poop and forecastle."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    galleon  
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    carack