holcad/ˈhɒlkæd/EtymologyFrom Latin holcas, from Ancient Greek ὁλκάς (holkás). Compare hulk.nounA large merchantman ship in Ancient Greece.“The storeships provided by the Athenian government , which carried also both sutlers and artificers , were thirty of large burden of the kind called holcads, and a hundred smaller[…]”