Definition of "caracoa" []

• A large, fast boat used particularly in the southern parts of the Philippine Islands. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "They generally go in a certain kind of boat called caracoa on piratical expeditions, in which they commit signal depredations in all the ports and along all the coasts of those islands, killing and capturing the people of them, and burning and ruining the country."
• "View of corcoa (the vessel known as "caracoa"); photographic facsimile of engraving in John Stevens's _Collection of Voyages and Travels_ (London, 1711), i. -- in Argensola's "Discovery and conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands," p. 61; from copy in library of Wisconsin Historical Society."
• "View of corcoa (the vessel known as "caracoa"); photographic facsimile of engraving in John Stevens's Collection of Voyages and Travels"