Levantine vessel

Usage examples of caique.

Turkish tchektirme, Greek sacoleva, Venetian trabaccolo, Levantine caique, and the German U-1065 pigboat alleged to have been sunk by R.

Pullings glanced at his perfect decks, the white-gloved sideboys and the new-covered manropes ready to bring the visitor aboard, the powdered and pipe-clayed Marines prepared to stamp and clash by way of martial compliment, the bosun and his mates waiting with their shining silver calls, and then hurried below himself, to shove a groat, emerging only when the caique was within hailing distance.

The pilot took my arm and pointed to a vacant berth between two caiques moored with their bows to a stone wharf and their sterns held out by kedge anchors.

Because of the action we had been tricked into fighting trading caiques would soon be crowding this almost empty port.

At least when their caique had blown into the south cliff at Navarone it had been decently dark.

The Sultan himself came out to greet the slender caique that docked before the steps of his palace.

I straightened from the wheel and looked around to find that Ann had thrown a rope around the after anchor-line of the caique we had just missed, and had got the bight over a cleat in time to check us.

The pilot was describing in a polyglot tongue with English predominating how I had brought this fine ship all the way from America and rescued Captain Godolfo and his caique from the storm and the pirates.

Hosein recalled me to the present by pointing to a caique lying farther along the wharf.

Nor could I persuade the captains of the three caiques in the harbor to release any of their men, and the few free sailors hanging around the waterfront were not the kind I would want aboard Sabrina if we encountered pirates.

The jenny thrashed violently as we came up into the wind, our shrouds brushed the caiques counter as we shot round her stern, and I cursed Ann's interdiction of the engine as I braced myself for the crash when we hit the wharf.

An armada of caiques will sail from the Piraeus on Thursday at dawn and island-hop across the Cyclades, holing up in the islands at night.

A little coasting trade in caiques from Rhodes - not so much of that now, sir.

A little coasting trade in caiques from Rhodes not so much of that now, sir.

We could take a car over from Heraklion to Agia Gallini, and hire a caique from there, and I would show her the exact spot where Colin had pulled the dittany off the wall of the little church.