And when Harflew had her siege about, There came caracks horrible great and stoute In the narrow see willing to abide, To stoppe vs there with multitude of pride.
Sidenote: Great caracksof Genoa taken by the Duke of Bedford.
The Sampson went aboord on the bow, but hauing not rome enough, our quarter lay on the Exchanges bow, and our bowe on the Caracks bowe.
At this place he vnderstood one of the pilots of those ships, that one of the caracks that came out of the East Indies, was cast away in the rode of Fernambuc, and that all her goods were layd vpon the Arracife which is the lower towne.
He returned him this answere: That he wanted the caracks goods, and for them he came, and them he would haue, and that he should shortly see.
About three in the afternoon, the Charles, our admiral, came up with the Portuguese ship, which was the admiral of the caracks that sailed this year from Lisbon, but had parted from all the rest of their fleet.
If those Millhaven men had four ships driving down before that storm, as seemed probable enough, the Bird Daughter's two little caracks would never land men under the guns of Bertragh.
That night the two caracks separated, standing well off the land and keeping good watch, but no sign did they catch of the O'Donnell pirates.
Keep a watch to seaward, Yellow Brian, and when you see four sail turning the headland, judge if those two caracks of the Bird Daughter's are like to help you.
There was a thin mist driving in from the sea which would be dissipated with the daybreak, and if the Dark Master was on one of the ships he might get away before Nuala's caracks could arrive.
He remembered little of that voyage, for they met two caracks crowded with men off Innishark that afternoon, found they were the expected O'Malleys from the North, and turned back with them at once.
He saw that the Dark Master must have sent this galley out to meet the Millhaven men, and that the crew had taken the two caracks for those pirate ships.
Also, Nuala had told him herself that her ships had not preyed on the commerce of Galway's merchants, but only on certain foreigncaracks which free-traded along the coast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caracks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
