mahone

See also: Mahone

English

Alternative forms

mahume

Etymology

From Middle French mahonne, mahomme.

Noun

mahone (plural mahones)

(historical) A large Turkish ship. [from 16th c.]
- 1680, Paul Rycaut, The History of the Turkish Empire […] :
  In this Charge one of the Turks Mahones was sunk , and two disabled

References

James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Mahone”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 38, column 3.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mahone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ma.ɔn/

Noun

mahone f (plural mahones)

Alternative spelling of mahonne

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