Brewer's: Carack

or Carrack. A ship of great bulk, constructed to carry heavy frieghts. (Spanish, caraca.)

“The rich-laden carack bound to distant shores.”

Pollok: Course of Time, book vii. line 60.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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