zabra (zabra)

[Sp. and Pg.] A small ve el used on the coasts of Spain. Portugal furnished and set foorth. ten Galeons, two Zabraes , 1300. Mariners. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 592. Of the tenders and zabras seventeen were lost and eighteen returned. Motley , Hist. Netherlands, II. 507. Zabridæ (zab'ri-dē), n . pl . [NL. (Hope, 1838), Zabrus + -idæ.] A family of caraboid beetles, named from the genus Zabrus .