trabaccalo

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But wo betideth the trabaccalo or short-handed merchantman that may happen to be becalmed in their sight.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

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"... presently the sea grew more and more populated with feluccas, trabaccaloes, merchantmen of various rigs and sizes..."
--P. O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 119

March 25, 2008
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