The Balun is a 24-meter, two-masted Turkish gulet, a kind of wooden sailboat also known as a caique (pronounced "kai-eek").    From Wordnik.com.  [Slow Boat to Croatia] Reference

"A caique like the Balun is the camper of the seas," laughs Mr. Bertoldi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slow Boat to Croatia] Reference

She watched him move the tiller, heading the caique out into the open sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tycoon's Mistress]

The caique is long and very narrow, and sharp at both ends -- pointed, in fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference

Those who ride in them do not sit on benches, but in the bottom of the caique, on a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

She sat tensely in the bow as the caique pushed its way through the sparkling sunlit water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tycoon's Mistress]

I have ridden in a caique upon the waters of the Bosphorus, and looked upon the capital of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burlesques] Reference

Suddenly the caique fouled with another, and there came a volley of Turkish oaths and objurgations.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference

As the caique traversed the shoreline, Cressy saw long stretches of pale sand, sheltered by jagged rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tycoon's Mistress]

The first thing she saw was a small caique, with faded blue paint and its sails furled, moored just offshore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tycoon's Mistress]

The refreshing coolness of the sea breeze induced us to hire a caique, and we coasted along towards the Seraglio Point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

(The Web sites www. cinqueterrecharter.com and www. croatia-yachting.hr are among several that list caique cruises in the region.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Slow Boat to Croatia] Reference

One peculiarity of the caique is that there are no rowlocks for the oars, which are held by a loop of leather fastened on the boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference

The battle may be said to have begun in January, 1955, when a Greek caique was captured while unloading explosives on the coast of Cyprus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cyprus Question] Reference

As our caique again glided swiftly down the stream, we passed many similar vessels, containing seven or eight Turkish women each, and up went the yashmak at our approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

Grand Vizier, had returned to the Alcyon in the caique.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Monte-Cristo] Reference

I am interested in adopting or buying a black headed caique.    From Wordnik.com.  [craigslist | all community in san diego] Reference

The three of them hired a caique and discovered an ancient wreck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

They went down, got into the caique, and were taken by the turmoil of the Golden Horn.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference

In summer, all Pera is on the Bosphorus: so I jumped into a caique, and rowed up to Buyukdere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.] Reference

It is a long, light canoe (caique,) large at one end and tapering to a knife blade at the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Innocents Abroad] Reference

I bagged the diamonds, fled with them to Trebizond, and sailed thence in a caique to South Boston.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brick Moon, and Other Stories] Reference

He saw him, too, pull the little egg-shell caique in which he sat still nearer the wall of the seraglio.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus] Reference

It was already late in the afternoon when her caique touched the wharf at the foot of the Galata bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference

It was at this calm and quiet hour that a caique, propelled by a dozen oarsmen, shot out from the shore of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus] Reference

"Some day, perhaps, I shall tell you what they are, in a caique on the sweet waters of Asia or among the cypresses of Eyub.".    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference

Leaving the Alcyon in charge of his first officer, and bidding me a hasty and tender farewell, the Count entered the caique with the Grand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Monte-Cristo] Reference

As it was late, no other caique was in sight, and my boatmen, apprehensive of being run down, stopped to defend themselves with their oars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches] Reference

"We will go to Eyub by caique," she wrote, "and lunch at a Turkish café.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference

Some day, perhaps, I shall tell you what they are, in a caique on the sweet waters of Asia or among the cypresses of Eyub. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference