"zebeck" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: zebecks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} zebeck (plural zebecks)
  1. Alternative spelling of xebec. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: xebec
    Sense id: en-zebeck-en-noun-OnylO0RA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "On the 18th October, about five leagues from Gibraltar, we were boarded by a zebeck of 20 guns, belonging to this place, who after coming within musket-shot, kept up a constant firing with small arms, until they manned our yards from theirs, then the firing ceased, and they came down sword in hand, spared our lives, but nothing else, having stripped us of the clothes we had on, and put us on board the zebeck, […]",
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