Also 6 zabre, azabra, 9 zumbra. [Sp.] A small vessel used off the coasts of Spain and Portugal.
1523. Wolsey, in St. Papers Hen. VIII., VI. 118. That the Emperour … do sende also 2 zabres of the portage of 30 or 40 ton a pece.
1588. Archdeacon, trans. True Disc. Army K. Spain, 19. The Zabra Augusta, of 166 tunnes.
1589. Greene, Span. Masq., Wks. (Grosart), V. 274. Of Gallions, Hulkes, Pataches, Zabres, Galeasses, and Gallies 130.
1607. Dekker, Whore Bab., H 4. Our Galeons, Galeasses, Zabraes, Gallies.
1860. Motley, Netherl., xix. II. 507. Of the tenders and zabras, seventeen were lost.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Zumbra, a Spanish skiff or yawl.
