Definitions for xebecs

xebecs xe·bec

Spelling: [zee-bek]
IPA: /ˈzi bɛk/

Xebecs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in xebecs (bceesx).

Definitions for xebecs

noun

  1. a small, three-masted vessel of the Mediterranean, formerly much used by corsairs, now employed to some extent in commerce.

Origin of xebecs

1750-60; alteration of earlier chebec French Catalan xabec or Spanish xabeque (now jabeque), both Arabic shabbāk

Examples for xebecs

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

Equivalent to our hermaphrodite, being a small Mediterranean vessel, between a xebec and a felucca.

Decatur spoke as if he meant what he said, and the officers of the xebec did not want to lose their ears.

The first broadside from the ship's cannons kills five men on the deck of the xebec, among them the father of Riquer.

On the 31st of October he gave chase to a xebec trying to get into the harbor.

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 next morning Decatur had himself rowed over to the xebec, and went on board.

One is a polacre, another a xebec, and the third looks like a full-rigged craft; but as she is end on, I can't say for certain.

The small cannon of the xebec had been dismounted, but they hastily tied them with ropes.

Every time one of her boats rowed past the xebec it would be challenged and ugly things said.

Word Value for xebecs
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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