Type of Mediterranean sailing ship.
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Examples for "chebeck"
Examples for "chebeck"
1There was still time before the chebeck's crew discovered what was happening.
2The nearest chebeck seemed to stagger, as if it had struck a reef.
3Another chebeck, perhaps two, were using the change of wind which had delayed his attack.
4The same man who had helped to blow up a chebeck with his bare hands.
5And then he saw the chebeck.
1When the xebec's fires died down, darkness settled on us like a cap.
2While it lasted, no boat could push out from the xebec without our perceiving it.
3He had received a wound in the right hand, when on board the xebec 'Cerf'.
4I fancy the xebec is the fastest, sir.
5The xebec, no doubt, is a coast trader.
6Perree was on board the xebec 'Cerf'.
7The shallowness of the river near Cairo obliged us to leave the xebec and get on board a djerm.
8Why, in the name of seamanship, is that spar stayed forward in such a fashion, looking like a xebec's foremast?
9The xebec and polacre are gaining on us, but we are going as fast through the water as the three master.
10That big fellow has got twelve on a side, the polacre has eight, and the xebec six, so between them they have fifty-two guns.
11The boat took in a dozen or so, and then, being dangerously overcrowded, left the rest to their fate, and headed back for the xebec.
12"Here," he said, pointing to the lateen-rigged xebec; "you see that felucca-boat?"
13When the xebec's fires died down, darkness settled on us like a cap.
14While it lasted, no boat could push out from the xebec without our perceiving it.
15He had received a wound in the right hand, when on board the xebec 'Cerf'.
16I fancy the xebec is the fastest, sir.