How to pronounce“xebec”in English
IPA/ˈzibɛk/
Syllablesxe·bec
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noun
A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern.
“Fourteen Xebecks loaded with Ammunition, Cannon, and other warlike Stores from Majorca, bound to any Part of Italy, where they could be landed for the Uſe of the Spaniſh Army, having got ſafe to Genoa in the latter End of June, Admiral Mathews on board of the Namur, with the Barfleur, Norfolk, Princeſs Caroline, Ipſwich and Revenge went there, and concluded a Treaty; […]”