xebec

n. sailboat having three sails

is a subsidiary of the anime studio Production I.G. that specialises in the production of television anime.They have worked on many popular series such as Love Hina and Martian Successor Nadesico.
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This article discusses the sailing vessel. For the Japanese animation studio, see XEBEC. Xebec was also a disk drive controller company in the 1980's, it provided the controller for the IBM PC/XT. The term xebec ( or ; also written xebeck, xebe(c)que, zebec(k), zebecque, chebec, shebeck ; from , , , , , and ; origin uncertain, but perhaps a fishing boat originally: Arabic root means 'a net') refers to a small, fast vessel of the 16th to 19th centuries, used almost exclusively in the Mediterranean Sea. Xebecs were similar to galleys used by Berber corsairs having both lanteen sails and oars for propulsion. Early xebecs had two  masts; later ones three. Xebecs featured a distinctive  hull with pronounced overhanging  bow and stern, and rarely  displaced more than 200  tons, making them slightly smaller and with slightly fewer guns than frigates of the period.
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(n.)
A small three-masted vessel, with projecting bow stern and convex decks, used in the Mediterranean for transporting merchandise, etc. It carries large square sails, or both. Xebecs were formerly armed and used by corsairs.
  

xebec /'zi:bek/
danh từ (hàng hải) thuyền xêbec, thuyền ba cột buồm (ở Địa trung hải)
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