Wordie: Xebec: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:29:43 +0000

So far, I haven't a clue. :-)

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:20:44 +0000

Yeah...thanks... I'm trying very hard not to give away plot points and stuff in them, in case anyone hasn't read them and wants to.

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:18:03 +0000

I'm loving these O'Brian quotes, chained_bear. :-)

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:59:52 +0000

"'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

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:54:49 +0000

A small, three-masted vessel of the Mediterranean, formerly much used by corsairs, now employed to some extent in commerce. Also spelled chebeck, zebec, and zebeck.