Carabus (boat)

Carabus () was a small coracle or boat made of wicker-work, and covered with rawhides. The Caravel and the modern Greek καράβι, which means vessel, derives from carabus.Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), CarabusA Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), Carabus

These boats could be moved by short oars. Ancient authors wrote that carabus were used in the River Po.

Caesar described such boats as employed by him in Spain, from having seen it in Britain.

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