Carabus (boat)

Carabus (Ancient Greek: κάραβος and καράβιον) 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.^[1][2][3]

These boats could be moved by short oars. Ancient authors wrote that carabus were used in the River Po.^[4]

Caesar described such boats as employed by him in Spain, from having seen it in Britain.^[1][2]