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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Car"rick\, n. (Naut.)
A carack. See {Carack}.

{Carrick bend} (Naut.), a kind of knot, used for bending
   together hawsers or other ropes.

{Carrick bitts} (Naut.), the bitts which support the
   windlass. --Totten.

 

 

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