How To Use carrack In A Sentence
- his vocabulary alone is worth the cover price - gantries, quinquireme, discalced, carrack, loxodrome, godown, scutch, so shrewd in his deployment of detail, so blessed with good luck and goodwill that we forget the conceit and just enjoy the ride. The Seattle Times
- On January 17, 1524, Verrazzano set sail in his carrack La Dauphine. Archive 2008-07-01
- The Chinese, with ships as large as the Portuguese carracks and much more efficient to windward, traded in growing strength throughout South-east Asia, and settled in the area in far greater numbers than Europeans.
- The Italian city-states kept squadrons of galleys and adapted carracks (merchant ships) to defend their ports against the Ottoman Turks.
- It was, after all, fifteenth century Portuguese carracks loaded to the gunnels with soldiers and guns on the way out and booty heading back that started the whole trend.
- In the Lansd. MS., British Museum, No. 70., there is a letter from Mr. Richard Champernowne to Sir Robert Cecil, dated in 1592, referring to the discovery of some articles pillaged from the Spanish carrack, which had then recently been captured and taken into Dartmouth harbour. Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850
- Bigger ships known as carracks, mixing square and lateen sails and weighing up to 1000 tons, could sail further and carry more merchandise than ever before.
- 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. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
- Mary Rose, a 700-ton Portsmouth-built carrack, is still being sprayed with preservative polyethylene glycol to halt decomposition of the timbers - that is expected to finish in 2008-and she will then be slowly dried.
- Offshore, seals loaf around on the Carracks, two rocky islets and the odd small fishing boat bounces across the surf.
