“chebec”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

chebec

释义

chebec, -ck|ʃɪˈbɛk|
Also written shebeck, and now usually xebec.
[a. F. chebec; in OF. chabec, Sp. jabeque, OSp. xabeque, -veque, Pg. xabeco, -veco, OPg. enxabeque, It. sciabecco, zambecco, stambecco, mod.Arab. shabbāk, shobbāk, Turkish sunbekī (Meninski, 1680). Ulterior origin uncertain. (Jal shows that the vessel was originally a fishing-boat.)]
A small three-masted vessel, used in the Mediterranean, a xebec; it resembles the felucca, but is rigged with square besides lateen-sails.
1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. II. 262 It consists..of twenty-six men of war, thirteen frigates, two packet-boats, eight chebecks.1773Brydone Sicily, Three of their [Turks'] chebecks ran into a small harbour..and carried off six merchant-ships.1806A. Duncan Nelson 158 Twelve chebecks, each of two 24-pounders.1858Simmonds Dict. Comm. Chebec, a kind of naval craft.

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