noun, masculine/ˈbuke/plural: buques
ship, vessel
“El día en que lo iban a matar, Santiago Nasar se levantó a las 5.30 de la mañana para esperar el buque en que llegaba el obispo.” — The day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at 5:30 in the morning to wait for the ship in which the bishop arrived.
Related: antibuque, buque cisterna, buque de guerra, buque insignia, buque mercante
Borrowed from French buc (“trunk of the body”), from Old Frankish *būk (“belly, trunk, hull, torso”), from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, abdomen, trunk”).