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单词 carab
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carabn.

Etymology: < Latin carabus (see Du Cange) ‘a small wicker-boat covered with raw hide’: compare Greek κάραβος ‘a kind of light ship’. English writers appear to have identified it with Irish corrach , curragh n.
Obsolete. rare.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > boat made with hides > over wickerwork
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 389 Þe Scottyshe men..took a carabum, þat is a schippe i-made but of tweie hydes and an half.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 228 Devout men, that in a Carab (or carogh) made of two tanned hides onely and an halfe, sailed out of Ireland into Cornwall.
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