Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
kafila .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
cafila .
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- noun Alternative form of
cafila .
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Examples
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Two nights before, some sixty or seventy thieves assailed in the dark a party of 150 Patan soldiers, mistaking them for a caffila that had just gone before, by whom ten of them were slain and as many taken, the rest escaping in the dark.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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English were not on the coast, they were to proceed for Cambay, to capture the caffila, or convoy of country vessels.
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I thought they had come to attack us, but they were a _caffila_ of merchantmen bound for Cambaya; as there comes every year a similar fleet from Goa, Chaul, and other places to the southwards, for Cambaya, whence they bring the greatest part of the loading which is carried by the caracks and galleons to Portugal.
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On the 2d of February, while passing through a narrow lane inclosed on both sides with hedges, we were assaulted by above 300 rajputs, where we could not hurt them, as they did our caffila or caravan by their arrows and shot.
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