Definition of "pinnaces" [pinnaces]

• Plural form of pinnace. (noun)

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• ""pinnaces," or by whatever names the custom of the times attached to the different attendants of vessels of war."
• "On July 20, the English sailed up to Quebec in three vessels, a flyboat and two pinnaces, with twenty-two guns and 150 men."
• "He picked a place on a small creek where pinnaces and shallops could land at high tide, with the meadows nearby, a great growth of trees, and an abundance of snow geese.52"