carack

A great carack was within a bowshot of them and crossing their bows.

So up anchor and take your rotten carack back to whatever port of dreams you hale from.

One was a carack, converted from merchant service.

But, foot by foot,, the big carack closed the distance between them.

"The carack's sail is a white fleck on the crimson waters.

With every sail she possessed filled with wind, the carack plunged after her prey.

"It is a carack trimmed and rigged like a craft of the Barachan pirates - look there!"

Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land carack; If it prove lawful prize, he's made forever.

But what would be so precious to this ship that it would flee our carack like the plague ?

The grappling booms of the galley crashed down, driving their claws into the carack's deck.

A dozen men in the tops of the carack were balancing a huge stone with the intention of dropping it over on the English deck.

The carack was Strom's trump card, his best guarantee against the trickery of his associates.

Strom's pirates were swarming up the sides of their carack, heaving up the anchor.

The brisk northeasterly trade wind sang in the carack's rigging and bellied out the broad sails above.

"A carack," answered the seneschal.

As the Red Lion swung upwind to port, the wall of fire moved as if to keep itself between the carack and the fleeing galley.

When Joseph was killed in an engagement with a Portuguese carack, Herbert assumed the command, and eventually beat off and disabled the enemy.

Before he could reply, a quick step sounded on the boards, and the master of the carack was glaring at the stranger, fingers twitching at sword-hilt.

With a brisk wind filling the mainsail and foresail of the Red Lion, the carack responded like a mettlesome steed to the tillers.

The men on the stockade gripped their bows or boar-spears and stared somberly at the carack which swung inshore, its brass work flashing in the sun.

He had the story from a Genoese captive, the captain of a carack which the corsair scuttled in the Straits of Messina.

With his gems,, they had bought the powerful carack and were now come into port to enlist a crew of lawless rogues from among the Barachan pirates.

And there at anchor rode Amra's ship - a stout, deep-bellied carack called the Red Lion, like Amra's caravel of former times.

But by an evil chance not a bowshot from the great Spanish carack was a low galley, thin and swift, with oars which could speed her against wind or tide.

Then I climbed a tree to look for Picts, and from it I saw your carack at anchor, Strom, and your men coming in to shore.