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Caravel   Listen
noun
Caravel  n.  (written also carvel and caravelle)  (Naut.) A name given to several kinds of vessels.
(a)
The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.
(b)
A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.
(c)
A small fishing boat used on the French coast.
(d)
A Turkish man-of-war.






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"Caravel" Quotes from Famous Books



... started for Panama with the gold that had been collected, and instructions to lay before Pedrarias, the governor, a full account of the expedition. Meanwhile Almagro had succeeded in equipping a small caravel, and started with about seventy men. He steered in the track of his comrade, and by a previously concerted signal of notches upon the trees he was able to recognise the places where Pizarro had landed. At Pueblo Quemado the Indians received him ill, though they did not venture beyond ...
— The Red True Story Book • Various

... in the hunting grounds, and men went not there to gather flowers. Day after day we watched for Spanish sails; for the plate fleets went that way, and some galleass or caravel or galleon might stray aside. At last, in the clear green bay of a nameless island at which we stopped for water, we found two carracks come upon the same errand, took them, and with them some slight treasure in rich cloths and gems. ...
— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston



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