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Webster 1913 Edition

Caravan

Car′a-van

(kăr′ȧ-văn or kăr-ȧ-văn′; 277)
,
Noun.
[F.
caravane
(cf. Sp.
caravana
), fr. Per.
karwān
a caravan (in sense 1). Cf.
Van
a wagon.]
1.
A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.
2.
A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.
3.
A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; – sometimes shorted into
van
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Caravan

CARAVAN

,
Noun.
A company of travellers, pilgrims or merchants, marching or proceeding in a body over the deserts of Arabia, or other region infested with robbers.

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