caravel

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  1. (senseid) 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.

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  3. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed by (w), for Robert Dexter|year=1597|oclc=837213735|title2=Virgidemiarum: Satires, ... In Six Books|location2=London|publisher2=Pickering (publisher)|William Pickering,(nb...)|year2=1825|section2=book III|page2=41|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=KDAJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41|lines2=1–4 and 11–14|oclc2=12198253|passage=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 ''and Pantagruel|Pantagruel''. / (..) Yet still he drinkes, nor can the ''Botemans'' cries, / Nor crabbed oares, nor prayers make him rise. / So long he drinkes, till the black Carauell / Stands still fast grauel'd on the mud of hell.

  4. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for J. Knapton, Andrew Bell, D. Midwinter, Will. Taylor, A. Collins, and J. Baker|year=1711|volume=II|page=3|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=VX4BAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA4-PA3|oclc=733949550|passage=We also barter'd all the Goods that were in the firſt ''Spaniſh'' Caravel, taken at our firſt ſetting out for other Commodities, and left all the Priſoners. A Caravel ſays ''Oforius lib.'' 2 is a Veſſel that has no round Top, nor any Timber acroſs the Top of the Maſt, but the Yard is made faſt a little below the Top. The Sails are triangular, and their lower Points are but little above the Deck.

  5. (quote-book) In Four Volumes|location=London|publisher=Printed for J. Wallis and C. Stonehouse,(nb...)|year=1776|volume=I|page=433|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IiNEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA433|oclc=912937496|passage=On the Ninth of May, in the Year one Thouſand, five Hundred, and Two, Christopher Columbus|''Christopher'' ''Columbus'' and his Brother departed, from ''Spain'', on their laſt Voyage of Diſcovery, with four ''Caravelles'', and one hundred, and ſeventy Men.

  6. (quote-book) Translated from the French ...|location=London|publisher=Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson,(nb...)|year=1788|page=98|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=QBMMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA98|oclc=731554387|passage=At preſent theſe trees are not very numerous, as the Turks make uſe of them to build the Grand Signior's caravelles, and cut down without ever planting.

  7. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,(nb...); and & Davies|Cadell and Davies,(nb...)|year=1812|volume=XII|page=150|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJNJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA150|oclc=836321444|passage=The governor of Hiſpaniola was afraid that if the admiral returned to Spain, Their Catholic Majeſties would reſtore him to his government, and ſo he ſhould be forced to quit it; for which reaſon he would not provide, as he might have done, for the admiral's voyage to Hiſpaniola; and therefore had ſent that little caraval to ſpy and obſerve the condition the admiral was in, and to know whether he could contrive with ſafety to have him deſtroyed, (..)

  8. (quote-journal) (Bibliophile Jacob.) Illustrated. (Chapman & Hall.) review|magazine=Athenaeum (British magazine)|The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama|location=London|publisher=Printed by Edward J. Francis, (...) published (...) by John Francis. ...|date=19 December 1874|issue=2460|page=835|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ksqPjMwYPwC&pg=PA835|column=3|oclc=956082422|passage=Probably the most famous of all the forms of craft used at this period was the ''caravel'', so well adapted for voyages of discovery, that nearly every one of the great navigators employed ships of this character, and in them performed feats of seamanship which are absolutely astounding. (..) Narrow at the poop, wide at the prow, having a double tower at the stern and a single one at its bows, the ''caravel'' carried four vertical masts, and one inclined one.

  9. (quote-book)|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1992|page=71|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jhtmzLlX70C&pg=PA71|isbn=978-0-521-35097-6|passage=Fishermen and other mariners who used caravels along the Atlantic coast of Portugal and the Cantabrian coast of Spain probably strengthened the hull to withstand the open ocean, perhaps using small whaling vessels as their model. As the Portuguese explored the coastline of Africa, they used small caravels with a two-masted lateen rig for many tasks, especially after they rounded Cape Bojador. The lateen caravel could beat its way home while keeping within reassuring sight of the coast.

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  11. (quote-book) had used to explore the Indian Ocean early in the fifteenth century.

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