Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as polacca.
- noun A mast of one piece, without tops.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
polacca , 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical, obsolete A three-masted merchant ship.
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Examples
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Would she overhaul them, or pass without taking notice of them -- seeing that the polacre was a small one, and not likely to be a valuable prize?
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) 1867
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As I am very, anxious for the return of the Emma polacre, I have to request that you will not detain her more than two hours.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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A Spanish polacre in ballast came out of Tripoli, with an ambassador of the Grand Seignor on board, who had been sent from
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat
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While on the way thither she fell in with a polacre-rigged ship flying the
The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898
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Captain Lockett rowed to the polacre, and examined his prize; and then, taking Bob in his boat, rowed to the barque.
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) 1867
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Just as the gunboat nearest the polacre -- finding the hail, for her to bring to, unheeded -- fired a shot into her, the brig's head paid off, and she poured a broadside into the two gunboats.
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) 1867
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He learned also that considerable doubts were entertained, as to the brig; and that the xebec and polacre had been signalled to go on ahead, so as to induce the brig -- if she should be an enemy -- to make an attack.
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) 1867
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She was astern just now, and she is abreast of the polacre now, as near as I can make out.
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) 1867
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They were in high spirits at the captures they had made; and the news which Brown gave them, that the polacre was laden with wine, assured to each of them a substantial sum in prize money.
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) 1867
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Before morning the yard was in its place and the sail set and, except for the shortened mizzen, and a ragged hole through the bulwark, forward, the polacre showed no signs of the engagement of the evening before.
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) 1867
reesetee commented on the word polacre
A three-masted Mediterranean vessel used in the 1700s and early 1800s.
August 2, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word polacre
"'Mr Powell and Mr Comfrey are to go straight to Malta in that storeship over there.'
"'The xebec, or the polacre?'
'The vessel to the right,' said Graham somewhat testily. 'The vessel that is so busy, with sailors creeping up the masts.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 80
February 11, 2008