Crossword-Solution: XEBEC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Xebec | n. | A small three-masted vessel, with projecting bow stern and convex decks, used in the Mediterranean for transporting merchandise, etc. It carries large square sails, or both. Xebecs were formerly armed and used by corsairs. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “XEBEC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Corsair's vessel | 1 answer |
| algerian pirate vessel | 1 answer |
| Three-masted sailing ship | 1 answer |
| Three-mast sailing vessel | 1 answer |
| Small three-masted vessel | 1 answer |
| Ship of Mediterranean corsairs. | 1 answer |
| Pirates' craft | 1 answer |
| One-time pirate ship | 1 answer |
| Old-timey sailing ship with three masts | 1 answer |
| Old corsair ship. | 1 answer |
| Multi-masted Mediterranean vessel | 1 answer |
| Mediterranean three-master | 1 answer |
| Mediterranean sailing ship | 1 answer |
| Medit. ship | 1 answer |
| Corsair's three-masted ship. | 1 answer |
| Corsair's ship. | 1 answer |
| Corsair ship of old. | 1 answer |
| CHEBEC | 1 answer |
| medieval ship | 2 answers |
| Medit. vessel | 2 answers |
| Three-master. | 2 answers |
| Mediterranean boat | 3 answers |
| Mediterranean ship | 3 answers |
| Mediterranean sailing vessel | 3 answers |
| Three-masted ship | 3 answers |
| Three-masted vessel. | 3 answers |
| Mediterranean vessel | 5 answers |
| Sailing ship. | 17 answers |
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Sentences with XEBEC (5)
The cannonade which Bonaparte had heard since the morning, and the explosion of a Turkish gunboat, which was blown up by the artillery of the xebec, led him to fear that our situation was really perilous.
The _Gauntlet_--a flattish-bottomed ship--footed it well before the wind, but not to compare with the xebec, which indeed was little more than a long open boat.
During twenty minutes of this time, the xebec, having picked up with the stronger breeze, had been shortening her distance (as Captain Pomery put it) hand-over-fist.
Within ten minutes our booms were swinging uselessly; the sea spread calm for miles around us; and we saw no fewer than three boats being lowered from the xebec, now about four miles away.
The boat took in a dozen or so, and then, being dangerously overcrowded, left the rest to their fate, and headed back for the xebec.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 39 times in crossword archives (1958–2018).