Significados de xebec em inglês

When the xebec's fires died down, darkness settled on us like a cap.

While it lasted, no boat could push out from the xebec without our perceiving it.

He had received a wound in the right hand, when on board the xebec 'Cerf'.

I fancy the xebec is the fastest, sir.

The xebec, no doubt, is a coast trader.

Perree was on board the xebec 'Cerf'.

The shallowness of the river near Cairo obliged us to leave the xebec and get on board a djerm.

Why, in the name of seamanship, is that spar stayed forward in such a fashion, looking like a xebec's foremast?

The xebec and polacre are gaining on us, but we are going as fast through the water as the three master.

That big fellow has got twelve on a side, the polacre has eight, and the xebec six, so between them they have fifty-two guns.

The boat took in a dozen or so, and then, being dangerously overcrowded, left the rest to their fate, and headed back for the xebec.

"Here," he said, pointing to the lateen-rigged xebec; "you see that felucca-boat?"

When the xebec's fires died down, darkness settled on us like a cap.

While it lasted, no boat could push out from the xebec without our perceiving it.

He had received a wound in the right hand, when on board the xebec 'Cerf'.

I fancy the xebec is the fastest, sir.