zebec

Anglais

Du français chebec, de l'espagnol xabeque ou du catalan xabec ou de l'italien sciabecco, tous issu de l'arabe شُبَّاك, šubbāk.

Singulier	Pluriel
zebec \Prononciation ?\	zebecs \Prononciation ?\

zebec \Prononciation ?\

(Navigation) Petit navire de transport méditerranéen à deux mâts, puis à trois mâts, doté d'une proue et d'une poupe en saillie.
- Soon after this time he [John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent] was put into the Experiment as acting captain, on account of a ſhort indiſpoſition which attacked ſir Richard Strachan, and ſignalized himſelf in the moſt remarkable manner during an action with a very large zebec, carrying 26 heavy guns and 400 men. — (John Charnock, « ST. VINCENT, Sir John Jervis, K.B. Earl of”, in Biographia Navalis; or, Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of Officers of the Navy of Great Britain, from the Year 1660 to the Present Time; Drawn from the Most Authentic Sources, and Disposed in a Chronological Arrangement », 1798, volume VI, Londres, R. Faulder, Bond-Street, page 406, note de bas de page ‡)
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