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caiques

n. (plural of caique English)

Usage examples of "caiques".

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.

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.