Caravel is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CARAVEL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a small light fast ship, chiefly Spanish or Portuguese, of the 15th to the 17th cents, also CARAVELLE, CARVEL
• a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.
• two- or three-masted sailing ship
• A name given to several kinds of vessels.
• 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.
• A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.
• A small fishing boat used on the French coast.
• A Turkish man-of-war.
• a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a small sailing ship

Words related to CARAVEL

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Words that contain CARAVEL

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How to use CARAVEL in a sentence

• In the meantime the master had reached the caravel, and made known the perilous state in which he had left the vessel.
• The admiral and her men took refuge on board the caravel.
• Embarking in her, they next fell in with a caravel, which they also captured.
• The latter loaded the first with chains and put him aboard a caravel in the harbor.
• But on the day we set to sail we did not sail, for along the coast and into our bay came a small caravel, going with men to our fort in Xaragua.
• About midnight of the 2nd of March the caravel was struck by a squall, which rent all her sails and threatened instant destruction.
• The caravel set sail in October, bearing off Columbus shackled like the vilest criminal.
• I was in command of a caravel in the expedition of Diaz.
• The Admiral sent a small caravel close inshore to look for a port, which was soon found.
• The caravel ran ashore at a point two leagues from the capital and the crew escaped into the woods.
• At last when about to depart, the captain stood up and said that the admiral might go with his caravel to the harbour, as all he had done was by order of the king his master.
• But the people in the caravel did not detain any of them for fear of giving displeasure to the admiral.
• He was eleven days by the way, and found the other caravel in waiting.
• This obliged the Pinto to lie to, and the admiral made up to the caravel, though he could not give any aid, on purpose to encourage the men.
• But, instead of executing these orders, the people in the boat immediately made off towards the other caravel, which was half a league to windward.
• The building of the fort went on expeditiously, as the admiral went on shore daily to superintend and hasten the works, but always slept on board the caravel Ninna.
• When the admiral went on board the caravel to sleep as usual, Vincent Yanes Pinzon affirmed that he had seen rhubarb, and knew its branches and roots.
• Among the Indians who came on board the caravel, Columbus selected four youths who appeared to have good capacities, with the view of carrying them into Spain.
• Having received authority from Obando, Juan Ponce went over to Porto Rico in a small caravel, with a small number of Spaniards, and some Indians who had been there.
• This news soon spread abroad, and heaven had the imprudence to send a caravel before him to Darien, having a desire to examine some islands which lay in the way thither.
• This caravel was, in fact, a caravel in name only, and because of its form, but not in its capacity.
• Hardly had he landed before he and his companions were massacred by the Cubans, the caravel broken to pieces and left upon the shore.
• Upon beholding some planks of that caravel half buried in the sand, the envoys bewailed the death of Valdivia and his companions.
• He obtained his wishes, and being furnished with a caravel, he embarked his merchandise in it, and set off on a voyage of discovery.
• The caravel, however, returned without having accomplished anything, the sailors not having had heart to adventure far enough westward.
• Such is the account of Ferdinand Columbus, who maintains that the said caravel could not be lunched for want of tackle.
• Domingo, he started homeward in the caravel which had brought him from Jamaica.

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