Usage examples for Xebec:

• Perree was on board the xebec 'Cerf'. "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte" – Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

• Our fugitive, with eighteen other white slaves, was put on board a xebec carrying eight six- pounders and sixty men, which, on the coast of Malta, encountered an armed vessel belonging to Genoa, and, after much bloodshed, was taken sword in hand. "White Slavery in the Barbary States" – Charles Sumner

• The shallowness of the river near Cairo obliged us to leave the xebec and get on board a djerm. "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte" – Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

• " I thank you for my own part," replied I; " but in conscience could you have abandoned us, after taking away our horses, and making us go on board the xebec whether we would or not?" "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte" – Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton