Carack n. (Spelt also carrack) (Naut.) A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. "The bigger whale like some huge carrack lay."
... in the Barbados in such a year, and had he not there captured the galleon Maria de las Dolores? What was that but an act of villainous piracy? Had he not scuttled a Spanish carack four years ago in the bay of Funchal? Had he not been with that pirate Hawkins in the affair at San Juan de Ulloa? And so on. Questions poured upon him ... — The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini
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