Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Carrick \Car"rick\, n. (Naut.)
A carack. See {Carack}.
[1913 Webster]
{Carrick bend} (Naut.), a kind of knot, used for bending
together hawsers or other ropes.
{Carrick bitts} (Naut.), the bitts which support the
windlass. --Totten.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
carrick bend
n 1: a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or
hawsers