polacre
Noun
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Noun
polacre (plural polacres)
- (nautical, obsolete or historical) A 17th-century three-masted merchant ship.
- 1820, J. H. Adolphus (editor), A Correct, Full, and Impartial Report, of the Trial of Her Majesty, Caroline of Brunswick, Before the House of Peers; on the Bill of Pains and Penalties, page 95 ↗,
- Before the Princess went to Palestine, do you know in what part of the polacre she slept?
- 1822, The Annual Register, Part 2, page 1137 ↗,
- If that be so with respect to the Aum case, what shall we say to the case now established in proof onboard the polacre; that case which they have been unable by any evidence to shake, or by any observation to destroy?
- 2007, David Cordingly, Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane, 1775-1860, page 138 ↗,
- As he approached the polacre he was surprised to see a Union Jack being hung over her gunwale.
- 1820, J. H. Adolphus (editor), A Correct, Full, and Impartial Report, of the Trial of Her Majesty, Caroline of Brunswick, Before the House of Peers; on the Bill of Pains and Penalties, page 95 ↗,
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