Also trabaccolo. [It. trabacolo, -accolo:—med.L. *trabāculum, f. L. trab-em beam, timber (cf. tabernāculum).] An Italian ship of medium size; a small coasting vessel.
1809. Capt. Hoste, in Naval Chron., XXII. 506. A convoy of merchant trabaccolos.
1812. Examiner, 12 Oct., 648/1. Twelve sail of the enemy’s trabaccoloes.
1846. Raikes, Life Sir J. Brenton, 360. Accompanied by three trabacolos for the purpose of landing the troops.
[1866. Howells, Venet. Life, vii. Small coasting vessels (trabaccoli at Venice).]
