caracol

American  

[kar-uh-kol] / ˈkær əˌkɒl /

noun

caracolled, caracolling

1. caracole.

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Other Word Forms

• caracoller
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of caracol

From Spanish

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Example Sentences

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caracol caracolled caracolling

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

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

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

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

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 G. Whitfield Ray

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

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

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 Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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 W. H. Wilkins

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

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

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