(n.) 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.
(n.) A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.
(n.) A small fishing boat used on the French coast.
(n.) A Turkish man-of-war.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bilbao is a great sea-port: is its new museum a ship in disguise, a spectral memory of the great caravels that carried gold back from the New World to enrich Spain half a millennium ago?
Carvel
Definition:
(n.) Same as Caravel.
(n.) A species of jellyfish; sea blubber.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nominees for best actor in a musical are Bertie Carvel for his monstrous Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, Nigel Lindsay in Shrek, Reece Shearsmith in Betty Blue Eyes and Paulo Szot in South Pacific.
(2) John Carvel Scott Thomas to play Lennon's aunt in biopic She is best known for roles which are quintessentially English and more often than not quite posh but now Kristin Scott Thomas is to take on hard-as-nails Scouse after being cast as John Lennon's tough-minded Aunt Mimi in artist Sam Taylor-Wood's debut feature film.
(3) The impetus for the study was the recent reports of major differences in the organization of cortex lateral and caudal to the SI in two other rodent species; the mouse (Carvell and Simons, '86: Somatosens.
(4) Meanwhile, Daily Show head writer Tim Carvell summed up the possible mood in Affleck's camp to the mixed reaction when he tweeted: "Spend ten years working your way back into everyone's good graces.
(5) John Carvel, social affairs editor Child poverty bill The government has been committed to eradicating child poverty by 2020 but has been frustrated in recent years by slow progress.
(6) We filed to authorize this new funding more than two months ago,” Kristin Carvell, a spokeswoman for Uber, said in an email.
(7) It’s as if one has left one’s body and touched down in another, alternative universe, full of actors you’ve never heard of playing characters with porn movie names – Raymie Steele, Shasta Carvell, Buck Williams – who emote, soapily, to the kind of music that you hear while on hold to speak to someone about life insurance.