or Carrack. A ship of great bulk, constructed to carry
heavy frieghts. (Spanish, caraca.)
“The rich-laden carack bound to distant shores.”
Pollok: Course of Time,
book vii. line 60.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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