different between mizzenmast vs carrack

English

Alternative forms

• mizenmast

Etymology

mizzen +? mast

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?z.?n?m??st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?z.?n?mæst/

Noun

mizzenmast (plural mizzenmasts)

1. (nautical) The aftmost mast on a ship having three or more masts.
2. (nautical) The second mast of a ship having two masts where the second one is shorter, such as a ketch or yawl.

Synonyms

• mizzen

Translations

See also

• foremast
• mainmast

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

Translations