Definitions for caracks

caracks car·ack

Spelling: [kar-uh k]
IPA: /ˈkær ək/

Caracks is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in caracks (aacckrs).

Definitions for caracks

noun

  1. carrack.
  2. a merchant vessel having various rigs, used especially by Mediterranean countries in the 15th and 16th centuries; galleon.

Origin of caracks

1350-1400; Middle English carrake Middle French carraque Spanish carraca, perhaps back formation from Arabic qarāqīr (plural of qurqūr ship of burden Greek kérkouros), the -īr being taken as

Examples for caracks

Grief-stricken his corsairs bore him back aboard the carack.

Nuala had sent fifty of her men to join Turlough, left twenty to hold her castle, and had ten with her upon the carack.

A little before night the carack put to sea, when we also weighed and made sail after her.

But, of 700 who sailed in the carack, there came not above 250 to Goa, as we were afterwards credibly informed.

Had he not scuttled a Spanish carack four years ago in the bay of Funchal?

While "carrack" is the more common English spelling, the author used "carack" consistently elsewhere in the text.

She proposed that Brian take one carack and she the other, but at this Brian laughed.

She was a large ship of the corvette kind, with something of the carack and something of the polacca about her.

Her second carack had fallen behind, a shot having sent its foremast overside, but the other two ships were driving in.

Borough captured the carack, the Madre-de-Dios, whose pepper alone Burleigh estimated at 102,000.

Word Value for caracks
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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