carvel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of carvel
late Middle English carvile < Dutch karveel caravel
Example Sentences
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One of them was her own, a heavy white boat, carvel built, with high freeboard.
From The Island Mystery by Birmingham, George A.
Carvels were strongly built craft, and we still speak of a vessel being carvel, or ship-built.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles
And cyphers nights of doomes to be, Till flaring pyres and yon red ghaut— So monstrous bright that some one prays— And Vizy's carvel starts to stir, Shape abhorrent signs on each lee.
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by de Esque, Jean
This offers less resistance, and before long builders constructed so-called ‘gigs’ for racing purposes, which were carvel built.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
Madam,—Please your good God, we have, since our coming hither, written to your highness thrice; once by the carvel in which we came, the other two from Dieppe.
From Margaret of Anjou Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
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