zebeck

== 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 === zebeck \Prononciation ?\ (Navigation) Petit navire de transport méditerranéen à deux mâts, puis à trois mâts, doté d'une proue et d'une poupe en saillie. On the 18th October, about five leagues from Gibraltar, we were boarded by a zebeck of 20 guns, belonging to this place, who after coming within musket-shot, kept up a constant firing with small arms, until they manned our yards from theirs, then the firing ceased, and they came down sword in hand, spared our lives, but nothing else, having stripped us of the clothes we had on, and put us on board the zebeck, […] — (Mathew Carey, « [Appendix.] No. IV. Extract of a Letter from John M‘Shane, Captain of the Minerva, to William Bell, dated Algiers, November 13, 1793 », dans A Short History of Algiers, with a Concise View of the Origin of the Rupture between Algiers and the United States, 3e édition, New York, Evert Duyckinck, 1805, page 82 → lire en ligne) La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter) ==== Variantes orthographiques ==== xebeck chebeque zebec shebeck xebec