Definitions
a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman
Word origin
From French caraque (compare Spanish and Portuguese carraca, Italian caracca), from Latin carraca, from Latin carrus (“wagon”); or perhaps from Arabic قَرَاقِير (qarāqīr).
Used in a sentence
“They [the English] are all on fire / To purchaſe from the Spaniard. If their Carracks / Come deeply laden, vvee ſhall tugge vvith them / For golden ſpoile.”
“Faith, he to night hath boarded a Land Carract, / If it proue lawfull prize, he's made for euer.”
“Thereafter huge sailing carracks brought Indian pepper and cotton, Indonesian perfume and spice, Chinese silk and porcelain, to the royal trading house at Lisbon.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“three-masted trader”7 letters
02“Old trade vessel”7 letters
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