caracol

American  

[kar-uh-kol] / ˈkær əˌkɒl /

noun

caracolled, caracolling

1. caracole.

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Other Word Forms

• caracoller
  noun

Etymology

Origin of caracol

From Spanish

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

caracol caracolled caracolling

"Is," said Henry, "you perpetually fly and caracol about, and just because you can, apparently, and for the fun of the thing."

From Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by Riddle, A. G.

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 Kerr, Robert

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 Kingsley, Charles

So universal is the use of the shell for this service that the native does not speak of it as caracol, the real word for shell, but calls it cuchara del agua, or water spoon.

From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by Ray, G. Whitfield

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

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 Bennett, Arnold

The "Jack," whose more distinguished patronymic was so gayly caracolling down the road to posterity, had arrived, and after dressing hastily, sought his mother.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

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 Thackeray, Miss

"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 Lever, Charles James

He had really wanted to ride a thorough-bred horse, but it was ridden instead by my dragoman's brother, and his rage had been uncontrollable when he saw the coveted animal caracolling before him.

From The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II by Wilkins, W. H.

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 Ellms, Charles