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单词 carvel
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carveln.

/ˈkɑːvɪl/
Forms: Middle English kervel, kervyle; Middle English caruyll, Middle English–1600s carvell, 1500s carueil, caruile, karuell, 1500s–1600s carvill, 1600s carvile, carveile, karval, 1500s–1600s, 1800s carvel; see also caravel n.
Etymology: < Old French caruelle, kirvelle (16th cent. in Littré): see caravel n. Carvel was the vernacular English form from 15th to 17th centuries, and still continues to be so, so far as the word is truly at home, as in the combination carvel-built, etc.
Nautical.
1. The ordinary name from the 15th to the 17th cent., of a somewhat small, light, and fast ship, chiefly of Spain and Portugal, but also mentioned as French and English. (Rarely mentioned after 1650 except as a thing of history, and then usually written caravel, after modern French caravelle, Portuguese caravela.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > types of fast sailing vessel
carvel1462
caravel1527
yachta1584
fly-boat1590
calvara1592
lorcha1653
runner1699
scampavia1723
clipper1824
clipper-ship1853
fruit-clipper1864
heeler1864
tea-clipper1895
1462 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 106 In-to Skotlondward in a kervyle of Depe.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxxixv Of ye Englyshe men..ii. Barkys, & a Caruyll, the whiche thre small Shyppys escaped by theyr delyuer saylynge.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. ii. 61 The pantit carvellis fletyng throu the flude.
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 17 The hoounds harroing after [the deer], az had they bin a number of skyphs too the spoyl of a karuell.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. F3 Rich Alexandria drugges, Fetcht by Carueils from Aegypts richest straights.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. ii. 729 Thus Columbus is set forth with three Caruels at the King's charges.
1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 717 An infinite number of karvals and small boats.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 40 A Caruell whose sailes stand like a paire of Tailers sheeres.
1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. iv. 47 It did me good To see the Spanish Carveile vaile her top Vnto my Maiden Flag.
1686 London Gaz. No. 2201/1 Besides..they have 9 or 10 Carvels or small Frigats, from 18 to 6 Guns.
1830 G. P. R. James Darnley III. viii. 171 From the biggest man-of-war to the meanest carvel.
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) iii. 42 All sorts of barques and carvels..correctly drawn on the slate.
2.
a. The Paper Nautilus or Argonaut.
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1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 6 This little Fish, the Carvill..riseth to the top of the sea..and there..Raises up his maine Mast, spreads his sayles, which he makes of his own sinewes..and begins his voyage.
1690 J. Banister Let. 2 Aug. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1693) 17 671 The Nautilus or Carvil (as the Sailors call it).
Thesaurus »
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b. The floating mollusc Ianthina.
c. A jellyfish (Medusa). Obsolete.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish)
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sea-nettle1601
blubber1602
nettlefish1611
red nettle1611
squalder1659
sea-jellya1682
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carvel1688
sea-qualm1694
sea-bleb1700
acaleph1706
sea-blubber1717
Medusa1752
quarla1820
acalephan1834
medusite1838
jellyfish1841
naked-eyed medusa1848
slobber1849
sea-cross1850
sea-danger1850
sun squall1853
discophore1856
medusoid1856
starch1860
Discophoran1876
jelly1882
sea-blub1885
1688 J. Clayton Let. 12 May in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1693) 17 783 In the Sea I saw many little things which the Seamen call Carvels;..they Swim like a small Sheeps Bladder above the Water, downwards there are long fibrous strings, some whereof I have found near half a yard long.
1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 7 When we were in about 46 degrees of Northern Latitude, I first saw what seamen call a Caraval or Portuguese Man of War.]

Compounds

carvel-built n. Nautical applied to a vessel ‘the planks of which are all flush and smooth, the edges laid close to each other..in contradistinction to clinker-built, where they overlap each other’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [adjective] > built with planks edge-to-edge
carvel-built1859
carvel-planked1886
1798 Capt. Miller in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. p. clix The pains I had taken to get carver-built boats.
1859 F. L. M'Clintock Voy. ‘Fox’ 249 She appeared to have been originally ‘carvel’ built.
carvel-planked adj.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [adjective] > built with planks edge-to-edge
carvel-built1859
carvel-planked1886
1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log xi. 252 The heavy carvel-planked boats of the French, Spaniards, or Italians.
carvel-work n.
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1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) [erroneously] Carnel-work, the building of ships first with their Timbers, and after bring on their planks.
1805 Mariner's Dict. Carvel Work, in contradistinction to clincher work; is the common method of planking vessels by laying the edges close to each other, and caulking them to make them water tight.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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