Word Finder - caravans

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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.

The caravans travelled far beyond the limits of the empire.

A considerable amount of forwarding was done by the caravans.

Traffic is carried on principally by means of caravans of camels, horses, asses and oxen.

Nearly submerged by the swirling waters of the Trent on Monday were caravans parked near the Britannia Inn at Farndon.

This age, with its regular maritime intercourse between the Aegean settlements, Phoenicia and the Delta, and with lines of caravans connecting Babylonia, North Syria, Arabia and Egypt, presents a remarkable picture of life and activity, in the centre of which lies Palestine, with here and there Egyptian colonies and some traces of Egyptian cults.

A large part of his revenue is derived from tribute exacted from the salt caravans.

The caravans from Kano were also frequently pillaged by the Tuareg, so that the prosperity of the town declined.

The southernmost, Gaza, was joined by a road to the mixed peoples of the Egyptian Delta, and was also the port of the Arabian caravans.

Near Bilma is a small circular oasis, kept green by a fine spring, but immediately to the south begins the most dreary part of the Saharan desert, over which the caravans travel for fifteen days without discovering the slightest trace of vegetable life.

Wherever oases are found they present similar features, and are naturally the halting-places and points of departure of desert caravans.

The Caravans The three modern caravans are set among spacious lawns, surrounded by trees and shrubs and overlooking the brook.

In his youth Muhammad traveled widely with camel trading caravans.

The park offers superb self-catering caravans and luxury pine lodges available all year, and touring and camping facilities from March to October.

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

Each of our 4-6 berth caravans offers comfortable spotlessly clean accommodation.

On the site there's also a caravan park for up to five touring caravans, open all year round.

The romantic view of horse-drawn caravans has long since passed.

The two bedroomed caravans have one bedroom with a double bed and another bedroom with two singles.

Following our arrival, a section of Woodham's yard soon resembled a Gipsy encampment with caravans, tents and vans arrayed!

Gipsy encampment with caravans, tents and vans arrayed!

They drive a desert jeep out of the pod, towing two caravans.

Ideal second home, caravans through to luxury lodges available.

Vehicle Technology Caravans overrun devices Standard Spring Cylinder Most AL-KO overrun devices supplied to the caravan market are fitted with a standard spring cylinder.

He also frequently employed his soldiers in collecting the taxes from the estates of those magnates who refused to contribute to the public burdens, in protecting the towns from the depredations of the robber barons, or in convoying the caravans of the merchants.

The fiery blasts of summer, furnace-heated over the red-hot Kizil Kum, are hardly less to be feared than the ice-cold shamshir (or north-western blizzard) of winter, which freezes men when it finds them in the open desert, and frequently destroys whole caravans.

The pilgrimage retained its importance for the commercial well-being of Mecca; to this day the Meccans live by the Hajj - letting rooms, acting as guides and directors in the sacred ceremonies, as contractors and touts for land and sea transport, as well as exploiting the many benefactions that flow to the holy city; while the surrounding Bedouins derive support from the camel-transport it demands and from the subsidies by which they are engaged to protect or abstain from molesting the pilgrim caravans.

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Recently completed expansion programs at both Knottingley and South Cave sites have resulted in easily accessible displays of both new and used caravans.

Old caravans, small railway carriages and other unusual items can be used to great effect.

Tin Can Tourists - Although not a vintage trailer park, the members of this organization take their classic automobile trailers on caravans.

By interacting with other Airstream owners in a forum environment, you can find resources for parts, get repair and maintenance advice, find out about rallies or caravans, and discover many other beneficial tips.

For families that wish to sample the outdoors without the aggravation of pitching tents or enduring cold nights, static RVs (referred to as caravans) may provide a suitable alternative.

Service manuals for Dodge Caravans can be purchased online from collectors, or you can opt for a generic Dodge Caravan service manual.

From here the caravans start for Persia, and at certain periods of the year long trains of camels may be seen, and Persian merchants conspicuous by their high black caps and long robes.

The route which these caravans follow is a chaussee as far as Erzerum, but this in places is too much broken to admit of the transit of wheeled vehicles.

The Hausa are often traders, traversing the country in large caravans.

This last class trades with the other three and despatches caravans to Illorin and other places, where the Kano goods, the "potash" and other merchandise are exchanged for kolas and European goods.

But while the province in many parts presents a landscape of luxuriant beauty, it is a prey to the ravages of disease, principally malarial fevers due to the extensive swamps formed by waters stagnating in the forests, and to the frequent incursions of the Goklan and Yomut Turkomans, who have their camping-grounds in the northern part of the province, and until about 1890 plundered caravans sometimes at the very gates of Astarabad city, and carried people off into slavery and bondage.

There is reason to believe that before the 6th century B.C. the caravans reached Damascus without coming near the oasis of Tadmor; probably, therefore, we may connect the origin of the city with the gradual forward movement of the nomad Arabs which followed on the overthrow of the ancient nationalities of Syria by the Babylonian Empire (6th century B.C.).

Originally an Arab settlement, the oasis was transformed in the course of time from a mere halting-place for caravans to a city of the first rank.

The true Arab despises agriculture; but the pursuit of commerce, the organization and conduct of trading caravans, cannot be carried on without widespread connexions of blood and hospitality between the merchant and the leading sheiks on the route.

Their caravans (auvoeiac) travelled right across the desert to the great entrepots on the Euphrates, Vologesias, about 55 m.

It is true that the king had a revenue, collected by the vicomte and paid into the secretum or treasury - a revenue composed of tolls on the caravans and customs from the ports, of the profits of monopolies and the proceeds of justice, of poll-taxes on Jews and Mahommedans, and of the tributes paid by Mahommedan powers.

Rohlfs informs us that " any one who did not know the way " by which the caravans passed " would only have to follow the bones which lie right and left of the track."

His attacks on the pilgrim caravans, begun in 1783 and constantly repeated, startled the Mahommedan world,' and compelled the attention of the sultan, as the nominal protector of the faithful.

It already, however, bore within it the germ of decay; the accumulation of treasure in the capital had led to a corruption of the simple manners of the earlier times; the exhaustion of the tribes through the heavy blood tax had roused discontent among them; the plundering of the holy places, the attacks on the pilgrim caravans under the escort of Turkish soldiers, and finally, in 1810, the desecration of the tomb of Mahomet and the removal of its costly treasures, raised a cry of dismay throughout the Mahommedan world, and made it clear even to the Turkish sultan that unless the Wahhabi power were crushed his claims to the caliphate were at an end.

The latter were indubitably the Ugrian nomads of the steppe, akin to the Tatar invaders of Europe, who filled the armies and convoyed the caravans of the ruling caste.

In the south communication is maintained chiefly by camel caravans.

Formerly a rendezvous for slave caravans Lindi now has a more legitimate trade in white ivory.

Caravans from Dar-es-Salaam to Tanganyika take 60 days to do the journey.