corvette (korvet)

[= D. Dan. Sw. korvet = G. corvette, Turk. qurvet ), a corvette, plied to ve els of burden, with reference to the corbita, or basket, carried at the mastheads of Egyptian grain-ships. A corvette, as he called it, of Calais, which hath been taken by the English. Sidney, State Papers, II. 436.