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caravels

caravels is the plural of caravel.

Meaning of caravel

Noun

caravel (plural caravels)

  1. (historical) A light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish for about 300 years from the 15th century, first for trade and later for voyages of exploration.
    • When Gullion di'd (who knows not Gullion?) / And his drie soule arriu'd at Acheron, / He faire besought the feryman of hell, / That he might drink to dead Pantagruel. / […] Yet still he drinkes, nor can the Botemans cries, / Nor crabbed oares, nor prayers make him rise. / So long he drinkes, till...1597, Joseph Hall, “Sat[ire] VI”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. […], London: Printed by Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC; republished as Virgidemiarum: Satires, … In Six Books, London...
    Synonyms:
    carvel

Questions about caravels

What is caravels the plural of?
Caravels is the plural of caravel.

Words near caravels in the dictionary

  1. Caravellas
  2. caravelle
  3. caravelles
  4. Caravello
  5. Caravellos
  6. caravels
  7. Caravelí
  8. Caraveo
  9. Caraveos
  10. caravette
  11. caravettes

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