Obs. rare. [ad. L. carab-us (see Du Cange) ‘a small wicker-boat covered with raw hide’: cf. Gr. κάραβος ‘a kind of light ship.’ English writers appear to have identified it with Ir. corrach, CURRAGH.] (See quot.)
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls Ser.), VI. 389. Þe Scottyshe men … took a carabum, þat is a schippe i-made but of tweie hydes and an half.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., II. 228. Devout men, that in a Carab (or carogh) made of two tanned hides onley and an halfe, sailed out of Ireland into Cornwall.
