different between longboat vs caravel

English

Etymology

long +? boat

Noun

longboat (plural longboats)

1. (nautical) Among the boats carried by a ship the largest, thus the most capable of boats carried on a ship.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. 22,^[1]

     But our Patron, warn’d by this Disaster, resolved to take more Care of himself for the future; and having lying by him the Long-Boat of our English Ship that he had taken, he resolved he would not go a fishing any more without a Compass and some Provision […]

   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, Part II, Chapter 1, pp. 5-6,^[2]

     We cast Anchor within a League of this Creek, and our Captain sent a dozen of his Men well armed in the Long Boat, with Vessels for Water, if any could be found.

   • 1838, Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, London: John Cunningham, 1841, Chapter 8, p. 31,^[3]

     So far we had had reason to rejoice in the escape of our longboat, which had received no damage from any of the huge seas which had come on board.

   • 1896, H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Chapter 1,^[4]

     The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H. M. gunboat Myrtle, and the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible Medusa case.

Translations

See also

• longship
• narrow boat
• longboat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle French caravelle, from Old French caruelle, carvelle (“caravel”), from Old Portuguese caravela (“caravel”), a diminutive of caravo, carabo (“type of small vessel”), from Late Latin carabus (“small wicker boat decked with hide”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (k??rabos, “type of light ship; kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; kind of crustacean, probably a crayfish”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ??v?l/, /?kæ???v?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ??v?l/, /?k?-/
• Hyphenation: ca?ra?vel

Noun

caravel (plural caravels)

1. (nautical, 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.

   Synonym: (one sense) carvel

Alternative forms

• caraval (obsolete)
• caravelle

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Notes

References

Further reading

• caravel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• acerval

Galician

Etymology 1

Attested since the 18th century. Probably from Catalan clavell. Compare Spanish clavel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??a???l/

Noun

caravel m (plural caraveis)

1. carnation (flower)

Related terms

• caraveleira

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??a???l/

Noun

caravel m (plural caraveis)

1. Alternative form of carabela

References

• “caravel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “caravel” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “caravel” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.