or Carrack. A ship of great bulk, constructed to carry heavy freights. (Spanish, caraca.)
“The rich-laden carack bound to distant shores.”
Pollok: Course of Time, book vii. line 60.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.