Meanings of chebeck in English

There was still time before the chebeck's crew discovered what was happening.

The nearest chebeck seemed to stagger, as if it had struck a reef.

Another chebeck, perhaps two, were using the change of wind which had delayed his attack.

The same man who had helped to blow up a chebeck with his bare hands.

And then he saw the chebeck.

The great, triangular sails were filling, pushing the chebeck over while her sweeps rose and froze in perfect unison.

The long bowsprit and ramlike beakhead swept over them, as if the chebeck and not the boat was moving.

So many broadsides, and countless other occasions from saluting to putting down a careering chebeck, had left him partially deaf.

A chebeck could pull around the ship's stem and fire point-blank with her one heavy cannon through the unprotected poop.

Becalmed, with the remaining chebecks drifting alongside, crewed only by the dead.

He could see it all more clearly than the chebecks of only three days ago.

Chebecks drew little water; they could lie close inshore without risk to their graceful hulls.

The mist had almost gone and the chebecks were clearly silhouetted against the dull land mass beyond.

He thought of the Algerine chebecks he had seen and had heard described by the old Jacks.

'I believe the corsairs are sheltering their chebecks among these islands.

Kellett shouted, 'Two of the chebecks are coming for us, sir,' incredulous that such frail-looking craft would dare to challenge a powerful two-decker.