zebec

== Anglais == === Étymologie === Du français chebec, de l'espagnol xabeque ou du catalan xabec ou de l'italien sciabecco, tous issu de l'arabe شُبَّاك, šubbāk. === Nom commun === zebec \Prononciation ?\ (Navigation) Petit navire de transport méditerranéen à deux mâts, puis à trois mâts, doté d'une proue et d'une poupe en saillie. Soon after this time he [John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent] was put into the Experiment as acting captain, on account of a ſhort indiſpoſition which attacked ſir Richard Strachan, and ſignalized himſelf in the moſt remarkable manner during an action with a very large zebec, carrying 26 heavy guns and 400 men. — (John Charnock, « ST. VINCENT, Sir John Jervis, K.B. Earl of”, in Biographia Navalis; or, Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of Officers of the Navy of Great Britain, from the Year 1660 to the Present Time; Drawn from the Most Authentic Sources, and Disposed in a Chronological Arrangement », 1798, volume VI, Londres, R. Faulder, Bond-Street, page 406, note de bas de page ‡) La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter) ==== Variantes orthographiques ==== xebeck chebeque zebeck shebeck xebec