Carabus (boat)

Carabus (Ancient Greek: κάραβος and καράβιον) was a small coracle or boat made of wicker-work, and covered with rawhides. The Caravel and the modern Greek καράβι, which means vessel, derives from carabus.[1][2][3]

These boats could be moved by short oars. Ancient authors wrote that carabus were used in the River Po.[4]

Caesar described such boats as employed by him in Spain, from having seen it in Britain.[1][2]

References
  1. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Carabus
  2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), Carabus
  3. Anthony Rich. A Dictionary Of Roman And Greek Antiquities With Nearly 200 Engravings On Woood. Nabu Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-1247823805.
  4. Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications. 1857. p. 3.
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