Definitions for caravels

caravels car·a·vel

Spelling: [kar-uh-vel]
IPA: /ˈkær əˌvɛl/

Caravels is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 319 anagrams from letters in caravels (aacelrsv).

Definitions for caravels

noun

  1. a small Spanish or Portuguese sailing vessel of the Middle Ages and later, usually lateen-rigged on two or three masts.

Origin of caravels

1520-30; Middle French car(a)velle Portuguese caravela, equivalent to cárav(o) kind of ship (Late Latin carabus a small wicker boat Greek kárabos skiff, crayfish) + -ela diminutive suffix

Examples for caravels

True, Seor, but the caravel is drawing frightfully near the point!

As yet only one caravel has come into port, but the rest are said to be not far off.

Every caravel that came from the New World brought two things.

Don Diego was seized, thrown into irons, and confined on board a caravel.

The caravel which had been left for the colony could not be taken from the river.

Now they lower something in black over the side of the first caravel.

They insisted on embarking in the caravel and following Columbus.

He was eleven days by the way, and found the other caravel in waiting.

Embarking in her, they next fell in with a caravel, which also they captured.

In spite of his seamanship, the caravel was wrecked on the island of Cuba.

Word Value for caravels
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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