Meaning of polacre | Babel Free

Definitions

A 17th-century three-masted merchant ship.

historical, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Before the Princess went to Palestine, do you know in what part of the polacre she slept?”

“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?”

“As he approached the polacre he was surprised to see a Union Jack being hung over her gunwale.”

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