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† ˈcarab Obs. rare.
[ad. L. carab-us (see Du Cange) ‘a small wicker-boat covered with raw hide’: cf. Gr. κάραβος ‘a kind of light ship’. English writers appear to have identified it with Ir. corrach, curragh.]
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1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls Ser.) VI. 389 Þe Scottyshe men..took a carabum, þat is a schippe i-made but of tweie hydes and an half. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 228 Devout men, that in a Carab (or Carogh) made of two tanned hides only and an halfe, sailed out of Ireland into Cornwall. |