Definitions
A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern.
Word origin
From French chebec, from Spanish xabeque or Catalan xabec or Italian sciabecco, from Arabic شُبَّاك (šubbāk, “fishing-net”). Not to confuse with the sambuq, an Indian-Sea vessel.
Used in a sentence
“An Engliſh privateer, Capt. Clymer, taken by two Spaniſh xebecs in the Weſt Indies.”
“Winter. The green xebec whose figurehead was Astarte, goddess of sexual love, tacked slowly into the Grand Harbour.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Mediterranean ship”5 letters
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