caïque

Definition of caïquenext

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Noun
  • Perhaps most importantly, the yacht can be customized, with a series of options tailored to the owner’s preferences.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Besides fewer people on board, the luxury yachts are small, which is beneficial not only for the onboard experience (hello, getting to know other people really well), but also for the more unique ports of call, thanks to the ship’s size.
    Megan duBois, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Then there's the Home One Starcruiser, which not only has a Nebulon-B frigate flying alongside it, but its side can also be removed to reveal the interior.
    Kim Snaith, Space.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • And China already possesses the world’s-largest fleet of destroyers, frigates and surface combatants.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Bob Dylan, too, passed through, once working with a local shipbuilder on a custom wooden schooner called Water Pearl, delighted that the unbothered locals did not recognize him.
    Elena Clavarino, Air Mail, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The bones belonged to Henry Goodsell, the captain of another 19th-century schooner.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 31 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Palm Beach Motor Yachts has taken its supermaxi sloop to new heights—quite literally.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Now as sailors stepped out into the surf, a great crowd tried to take oars off the first sloop.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The company offers everything from half-day catamaran sails to three-hour private adventure charters to Masonboro Island.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026
  • No gasoline from water taxis, no jerk smoke from a beach shack, no sunscreen haze wafting off a catamaran day trip.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History On Nov. 16, 1776, the Andrew Doria brigantine arrived in the Caribbean on the British colony St. Eustatius, waving the first national flag of the United States.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2026
  • On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In this age of discovery, new maritime technologies including the caravel, information tools like the printing press, and changes in the process of loaning money all helped contribute to an upswell of European traders looking for new markets to conquer by force.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In nearby Bonavista village, the Matthew Legacy is a full-sized replica of the caravel that Cabot sailed across the Atlantic on the fateful voyage.
    JOE YOGERST, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Temps won't fall much Thursday night either, with clouds returning ahead of another clipper passing north of the metro.
    Joseph Dames, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The clipper storm brings the prospect of a combination of rain and some snow.
    Jake Offenhartz, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
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“Caïque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ca%C3%AFque. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.

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