Crossword-Solution: XEBECS 6 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Xebecs, corvettes, and frigates, are the fittest to cruize; and the first have the great advantage of rowing, as well as sailing, I am told, very fast.

Two Spanish ships of the line, a frigate, two xebecs, and twenty-one small craft set out to intercept her.

The sea was smooth, the sky unclouded, but a gentle breeze deliciously tempered the heat, and vessels of every description—square-rigged ships, and coasting feluccas and xebecs—on their different courses, gave life to the scene.

Inside the mole there was a multitude of the light craft of the Mediterranean,--xebecs, feluccas, speronaras, or however they may be termed,--with here and there a brigantine which had come from beyond the Pillars of Hercules.

See Latin.] (Naut.) A triangular sail, extended by a long yard, which is slung at about one fourth of its length from the lower end, to a low mast, this end being brought down at the tack, while the other end is elevated at an angle or about forty-five degrees; -- used in small boats, feluccas, xebecs, etc., especially in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters.