‖ barca-longa Obs.
Also 7 barqua-, 7–8 barco-longo.
[Pg. or OSp.; lit. ‘long barge.’]
‘A large Spanish fishing-boat, navigated with lug-sails, and having two or three masts..common in the Mediterranean.’ Falconer Dict. Marine 1789.
| 1681 Lond. Gaz. 1608/1 With a Sloop and a Barqua-Longa. 1691 Ibid. No. 2708/1 The French..have only one Barco Longo..left. 1762 More in Phil. Trans. LII. 451 The selfsame barcalonga, or xebeck. 1790 Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 335 Sent Captain Veale in a barcolongo, attended by two feluccas, to attempt to destroy them. |