Caravel

1. n. A Turkish man-of-war.
2. n. A name given to several kinds of vessels.
3. n. The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.
4. n. A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.
5. n. A small fishing boat used on the French coast.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.