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karvel

karvel is the obsolete spelling of carvel.

karvel is the obsolete spelling of caravel.

Meaning of carvel

Noun

carvel (plural carvels)

  1. (historical) Synonym of caravel (“a light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship”).
    Synonyms:
    caravel
  2. (obsolete) A jellyfish (e.g. Medusozoa).

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

Forms of karvel

pluralkarvels

Questions about karvel

What is karvel the obsolete spelling of?
Karvel is the obsolete spelling of carvel.

Words near karvel in the dictionary

  1. karung guni
  2. karung gunis
  3. Karungi
  4. Karur
  5. karve
  6. karvel
  7. karvels
  8. karvi
  9. Karviná
  10. karwa
  11. Karwar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: karvel (page history and authors); carvel (page history and authors); caravel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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