caracol
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Origin of caracol
From Spanish
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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
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
The name is still retained. 340-3 Lapa means barnacle; caracol, periwinkle; and delfin, dolphin. 340-4 Dragon’s mouth.
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Julius E. Olson
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
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
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
I love to see the pretty dears Go lightly caracolling, And drinking love at eyes and ears, With every look their soul in!
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 355, February 7, 1829 by Various
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
"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
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
"I bring a letter for Haly Pasha, from the Defterdar of Lippa," said the csikós, searching for something in the pocket of his fur pelisse, so far as his caracolling steed would allow him.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai
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