different between carrick vs carrack

English

Etymology

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Noun

carrick (plural carricks)

1. Alternative spelling of carrack
2. (nonce word) A greatcoat.
   • c. 1948, Vladimir Nabokov, "Lecture on The Metamorphosis" (reprinted in Lectures on Literature, 1980)

     A poor man is robbed of his overcoat (Gogol's "The Greatcoat," or more correctly "The Carrick") […]

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• Russian: please add this translation if you can

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish carrac (“rock, large stone”) (compare modern Irish carraig).

Noun

carrick f (genitive singular carree)

1. rock

Derived terms

• bun-charrick

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• carack
• carrick

Etymology

From French caraque (compare Spanish and Portuguese carraca, Italian caracca), from Latin carraca, from Latin carrus (“wagon”); or perhaps from Arabic ?????????? (qar?q?r).

Noun

carrack (plural carracks)

1. (historical) A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.

   • Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land carrack; if it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.

   • 2018, David Birmingham, A Concise History of Portugal:

     Thereafter huge sailing carracks brought Indian pepper and cotton, Indonesian perfume and spice, Chinese silk and porcelain, to the royal trading house at Lisbon.

Synonyms

• nau

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