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Definition of caique in English: caiquenounkʌɪˈiːkkɑːˈiːk 1A light rowing boat used on the Bosporus. Example sentencesExamples - We enter a caique, where we take our seals in oriental fashion, and two rowers, dressed in grey-white, striped silk shirts and red fezzes, sped us up the Bosporus.
- Would you like to experience Istanbul from a caique?
- We sent up our luggage and servants by a caique, a long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat, rowed by sculls.
- The lighter service was handled, at least in part, by caiques and other mostly locally owned small boats whose socio-economic leverage, unlike that of the elite property owners on the sea front, was not great.
2A small eastern Mediterranean sailing ship. Example sentencesExamples - In fact only a small convoy of caiques, bearing a single battalion of mountain troops, was headed for Maleme, not Canea.
- Formerly known as caiques, gulets are beautiful, broad-beamed, hand-built wooden sailing boats, but unfortunately these days the sails are strictly for show.
- Typically, 12 to 20 rounds were needed to destroy a caique or schooner.
Origin Early 17th century: from French caïque, from Italian caicco, from Turkish kayık. Definition of caique in US English: caiquenoun 1A light rowboat used on the Bosporus. Example sentencesExamples - Would you like to experience Istanbul from a caique?
- We sent up our luggage and servants by a caique, a long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat, rowed by sculls.
- The lighter service was handled, at least in part, by caiques and other mostly locally owned small boats whose socio-economic leverage, unlike that of the elite property owners on the sea front, was not great.
- We enter a caique, where we take our seals in oriental fashion, and two rowers, dressed in grey-white, striped silk shirts and red fezzes, sped us up the Bosporus.
2A small eastern Mediterranean sailing ship. Example sentencesExamples - Formerly known as caiques, gulets are beautiful, broad-beamed, hand-built wooden sailing boats, but unfortunately these days the sails are strictly for show.
- In fact only a small convoy of caiques, bearing a single battalion of mountain troops, was headed for Maleme, not Canea.
- Typically, 12 to 20 rounds were needed to destroy a caique or schooner.
Origin Early 17th century: from French caïque, from Italian caicco, from Turkish kayık. |