Definition of caique Caique

ca•ique

We found 5 definitions of caique from 4 different sources.

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What does caique mean?

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  • caique (Noun)
    A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.
  • caique (Noun)
    One of two species of parrot in the genus Pionites.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • caique (n.)
    A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • caique
    kä-ēk′, n. a light skiff used on the Bosporus: the skiff of a galley. [Fr.,—Turk. kaik, a boat.]

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵

  • caique
    A small Levantine vessel. Also, a graceful skiff seen in perfection at Constantinople, where it almost monopolizes the boat traffic. It is fast, but crank, being so narrow that the oars or sculls have their looms enlarged into ball-shaped masses to counter-balance their out-board length. It has borne for ages the wave-line now brought out in England as the highest result of marine architecture. It may have from one to ten or twelve rowers.

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