caique

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See also: caïque

English

A caique (trading vessel)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French caïque, from Italian caicco, from Ottoman Turkish قایق (kayık),[1][2] from Proto-Turkic *kiayguk (“boat, oar”). Cognate with modern Turkish kayık.

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Noun

caique (plural caiques)

  1. (nautical) A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.
    • 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:
      Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
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Etymology 2

A caique (parrot)

From Spanish caíque or Portuguese caíque.

Noun

caique (plural caiques)

  1. Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites.

See also

References

  1. ^ "caique." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2008.
  2. ^ "caique." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 2008.
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