crare

English

Alternative forms

• craie, cray, crayer

Etymology

From Old French craier, creer, croyer (“ship of war”), Late Latin craiera, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic (compare German Krieger (“warrior”), or Dutch krijger).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Noun

crare (plural crares)

1. A slow unwieldy trading vessel.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find / The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare / Might easiliest harbour in?

Anagrams

• Cerra, Crear, carer, racer