Word Finder - caravan

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A convoy or procession of travelers, their vehicles and cargo, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.

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A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.

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To travel in a caravan (procession).

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The wedding party got in their cars and caravaned from the chapel to the reception hall.

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To travel and/or live in a caravan (vehicle).

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When my parents retired they really got back into caravanning.

It is an important centre for caravan routes and has a considerable trade.

A caravan road to the south goes through the oasis of Kurkur.

Kilossa and Mpapua are farther inland on the same caravan route.

The conquest of the central Sudan states by France - completed in 1910 by the subjugation of Wadai - has practically ended the caravan trade in slaves across the Sahara.

Touring by caravan has always been a favorite pastime in Britain.

On the 14th a small tornado damaged a caravan camp at Pwllheli.

The new caravan road to Isfahan, opened for traffic in 1900, promised, if successful, to give Ahvaz greater commercial importance.

The caravan route to the Red Sea was superseded in 1906 by a railway, which leaves the Wadi Halfa-Khartum line at the mouth of the Atbara.

His first considerable exploit was to destroy the "great water caravan" consisting of the treasury-barges and the barges of the patriarch and the wealthy merchants of Moscow.

The straw that broke the camel 's back was a caravan weekend at the end of October.

Whether you're looking for a holiday home or a touring caravan, these pages should provide you with some guidance.

Plas Ganol caravan is a three bedroomed static holiday caravan equipped for six.

A static caravan was broken into at Twelve Mile Lodge.

Phantom uses a Global Positioning Satellite System and 24 hour monitoring center to greatly improve the chances of recovering a stolen caravan.

Adventurous couples can even partake in a camel caravan or try their hand at deep sea fishing.

Vara motioned her out from under the tent and led her toward the caravan.

The rafts used are the so-called kelleks, of wood supported on inflated skins, which are broken up at Bagdad, the wood sold and the skins carried back by caravan.

Travelling down from Damascus in 1875 with the Haj caravan, he stopped at El Hajr, one of the pilgrim stations, with the intention of awaiting the return of the caravan and in the meantime of exploring the rock-cut tombs of Medain Salih and El Ala.

The annual pilgrim caravan or haj, numbering some 6000 people with Io,000 pack animals, is escorted by a few Turkish irregulars known as agel; small fortified posts have been established at the regular halting-places some 30 m.

It lies in the valley between Ebal and Gerizim, on the main caravan route from Jerusalem northward.

The present caravan road keeps the high ground to the west near the watershed, and avoids the Pass of Michmash altogether.

In Ifli, the central portion, formerly existed the town of Sagilmasa, founded by Miknasa Berbers in 757 B.C. It was on the direct caravan route from the Niger to Tangier, and attained a considerable degree of prosperity.

Ghadames itself is the centre of a large number of caravan routes, and in the early part of the 19th century about 30,000 laden camels entered its markets every year.

The caravan trade was created by the Ghadamsi merchants who, aided by their superior intelligence, capacity and honesty, long enjoyed a monopoly.

In 1893 came the invasion of Bornu by Rabah, and the total stoppage of this caravan route for nearly ten years to the great detriment of the merchants of Ghadames.

The value of the goods brought in yearly by caravan exceeds on the average £100,000.

Revenue is obtained principally from caravan taxes, liquor licences, rents from government land and contributions from the gold-mining companies.

The Australasian colonies got their supplies direct, and part of the Russian supplies went by the caravan routes.

It doubtless arose from the necessity of reducing bulk to a minimum for conveyance by caravan across the great trade routes of Asia, and now B r cks a ad that the railway and the steamship have supplemented tablets.

This route has displaced much of the protracted caravan business through Manchuria and Mongolia.

When successful, the journey, although about seven times the mileage of the old direct caravan route, took four months instead of eighteen, and was of course much less expensive.

On the opposite (west) bank of the Nile is the village of Metemma, whence there is a caravan route across the Bayuda Desert to the Merawi (Merowe) by Jebel Barkal; this was the route followed by the desert column under Sir Herbert Stewart in 1884 in the Gordon relief expedition.

There are also old established caravan routes from Kano to Ashanti and neighbouring countries.

There was also a very considerable caravan trade in native goods which the industrious Hausa population carried for great distances through the western and central states of the Sudan.

For Mahomet proclaimed it the duty of every Mussulman, once at least in his life, to visit Mecca; the result being that the birthplace of the Prophet is now the religious centre of the whole Mahommedan world (see Mahommedan Religion; Caravan; Mecca) .

Apart from the railways, communication is by ancient caravan routes and by ox-wagon tracks in the southern district.

There are also two caravan routes from Assab Bay, across the Danakil country to southern Abyssinia.

The chitet yields between 3000 and 4000 men, to be employed on the lines of communication or in caravan service.

In December 1891 he sent off his companion, Dr Stuhlmann, with the bulk of the caravan, on the way back to the east coast.

It runs somewhat south of the Berber-Suakin caravan route.

At the same time river communications were improved and the numbers of wells on caravan roads increased.

He all but flung her onto a horse, and she righted herself, joining a long caravan of well-armed men.

Caravan appliances Similar rules apply to the above portable appliances.

A caravan will be required for the female artistes to change in and refreshments will be required by the cast.

The more numerous we are and the more media attention we awake, the more successful the caravan will be.

Can anyone guide me to a dealer or site etc. where I can view a selection of erected caravan awnings?

These marquees can also be used for any outside event, caravan awnings or in the garden.

Half the year he tours the country towing the caravan behind his lorry.

The fitting of the Powrtouch caravan mover to the caravan mover to the caravan does NOT require any welding or drilling of the chassis making fitting simple.

They provide self catering holiday accommodation in static caravans and cottages as well as touring caravan pitches.