"xebeck" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: xebecks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} xebeck (plural xebecks)
  1. Archaic form of xebec. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: xebec
    Sense id: en-xebeck-en-noun-Hl4q29qZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Fourteen Xebecks loaded with Ammunition, Cannon, and other warlike Stores from Majorca, bound to any Part of Italy, where they could be landed for the Uſe of the Spaniſh Army, having got ſafe to Genoa in the latter End of June, Admiral Mathews on board of the Namur, with the Barfleur, Norfolk, Princeſs Caroline, Ipſwich and Revenge went there, and concluded a Treaty; […]",
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