mahone

• mahume

From Middle French mahonne, mahomme.

mahone (plural mahones)

1. (historical) A large Turkish warship. [from 16th c.]
   • 1680, Paul Rycaut, The History of the Turkish Empire […] :

     In this Charge one of the Turks Mahones was sunk , and two disabled

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Mahone”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 38, column 3.
• “mahone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɔn/

mahone f (plural mahones)

1. alternative spelling of mahonne