caracol
Americannoun
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Origin of caracol
From Spanish
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He laughed and sang, and made his horse caracol, and tossed his lance in the air, and caught it by the point, like Taillefer at Hastings, as he passed under the window.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
A proa of Borneo, Ternate, and the Eastern Isles; also called caracol by early voyagers.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
After some little stay, the purser took his leave, and lay all night on board the caracol.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
Bernard l'hermite of the French; caracol soldada of the Spaniards.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 by Samuel de Champlain
The 28th, the king of another island near Booton came in his caracol, accompanied by his wife, to view our ship, but could not be prevailed on to come aboard.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
Moreover, the mare caracolled ornamentally in the rays of the acetylene, and the stable-boy had to skip down quick and hold her head.
From The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
After all their grand caracolling, and feats of equitation, which must have been witnessed by the fair spectators.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
At the same moment, through the iron gate, they saw a figure advancing to meet them from the garden, with Gumbo caracolling in advance.
From Old Kensington by Miss Thackeray
Equestrians, too, are caracolling through streets and squares, clothed in bright ponchos, and their small, spirited steeds decked in shining trappings, with heavy Gothic-shaped spurs, half the weight of the riders.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
They fled by the fort Bab-azoona, on the roads towards Constantina and Bleeda; and about a hundred mounted Arabs were seen caracolling on the beach, as if to cover their retreat.
From The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms
"Time was, sir, when a lord-lieutenant drove to a gentleman's door in a style becoming his dignity, and not heralded by half-a-dozen rascals, whip-cracking and caracolling like the clowns in a circus!"
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
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