holcad
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὁλκάς (holkás). Compare hulk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɒlkæd/
Noun
holcad (plural holcads)
- (historical) A large merchantman ship in Ancient Greece.
- 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece
- The storeships provided by the Athenian government , which carried also both sutlers and artificers , were thirty of large burden of the kind called holcads, and a hundred smaller […]
- 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece
References
- holcad in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913