Definitions
Etymologies
- French caïque, from Italian caicco, from Turkish kayık, from Ottoman Turkish قایق (kayık). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Balun is a 24-meter, two-masted Turkish gulet, a kind of wooden sailboat also known as a caique (pronounced "kai-eek").”
“A party of us embarked in a sort of light boat called a caique, than which no species of vessel, save the gondola, cuts more softly and noiselessly through the waters.”
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
“After a boat trip in a traditional "caique," an uphill walk will take excursionists to the crater of an active volcano.”
“Covert operatives would be infiltrated into Greece by planes and caique fishing boats.”
“Typically for a caique, the Balun has a slow but powerful diesel engine that allows it a cruising speed of roughly seven nautical miles per hour, and rarely uses its heavy canvas sails.”
“A caique like the Balun is the camper of the seas," laughs Mr. Bertoldi.”
“When I started the business six years ago, the Balun was the only caique in Croatia," says Piero Bertoldi, the 45-year-old owner and captain of the ship.”
“(The Web sites www. cinqueterrecharter.com and www. croatia-yachting.hr are among several that list caique cruises in the region.)”
“Were I you, I would sooner set off to the Hyeres islands in a caique, on the chance of being captured by an Algerian corsair and sold to the”
“I have ridden in a caique upon the waters of the Bosphorus, and looked upon the capital of the”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘caique’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Dash's list
Words of interest.
cacogen, fricatrice, destrier, swoon, multiverse, haggard, entranced, entheogen, passionate, ascendant, conciliator, bandylegged and 34 more...
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These words are about words.
words on words. yyep.
codex, folio, lexicon, tome, word stock, wordbook, wordlist, palaver, word index, argot, parlance, doublespeak and 68 more...
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The Innocents Abroad
Words rounded up while reading The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.
rakish, excursionist, bowelless, pilgrimizing, melodeon, woebegone, abaft, sextant, veriest, behindhand, stanchion, avast and 188 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 723 more...
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the shipwright
Floating and water vessels of all sorts.
mothership, frigate, xebec, ship-of-the-line, sloop, schooner, cutter, clipper, coracle, skiff, dhow, junk and 40 more...
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ynaffit's Words
sedulous, vituperative, pullulating, erstwhile, imbroglio, asperity, cynosure, adumbrate, prosopopoeia, peerless, calumny, ague and 272 more...
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over the bounding main
sailing, sailing, the ocean, the seven seas ...
abaft, bilge, boom, isobar, chronometer, berth, spar, yawl, bowsprit, caravel, brigantine, razee and 14 more...
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Ends With "Que"
plaque, appliqué, bisque, communiqué, grotesque, marque, monocoque, odalisque, baroque, brusque, dantesque, critique and 46 more...
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I've Run a Fowles.
Words from The Magus
magus, bougainvillea, innermost, numen, imbricate, bilges, sandal-wood, incorporeal, fleshpot, desipience, batrachian, caique and 82 more...
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