Picard

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Full definition of picard

Noun

1. (historical, watercraft) A type of light, seaworthy vessel used in trade and the transport of fish in Britain and Ireland in the late medieval and early modern period.
• 1933, E. M. Carus Wilson, Studies in English Trade in the 15th Century Chapter The Overseas Trade of Bristol
• 1947, Dorothy Burwash, English Merchant Shipping, 1460–1540
• 2015, Ian Friel, Henry V’s Navy: The Sea-Road to Agincourt and Conquest, 1413–1422