barracks

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Ships lined the strand; war galleys and fishing vessels, stout carracks and fatbottomed cogs.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Downstream, conunoners and highborn captains alike could see the hot green death swirling toward their rafts and carracks and ferries, borne on the current of the Blackwater.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Lord Stannis's Pury, a triple- decked war galley of three hundred oars, looked almost small beside some of the big-bellied carracks and cogs that surrounded her.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

On board of the carracks was a sum of money, the wages of the whole fleet for three months, the English accounts say for six months.

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Landolfo they carried aboard one of the carracks, leaving him but a sorry doublet; then, taking everything out of the ship, they scuttled her.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John