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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  hawkbill \hawk"bill`\, hawksbill \hawks"bill`\(-b[i^]l`), n.
     (Zool.)
     A sea turtle ({Eretmochelys imbricata}), which yields the
     best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also {caret}.
  
     Syn: hawksbill turtle, hawkbill, tortoiseshell turtle,


          Eretmochelys imbricata.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Caret \Ca`ret"\, n. [F., a species of tortoise.] (Zool.)
     The hawkbill turtle. See {Hawkbill}.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Caret \Ca"ret\ (k[=a]"r[e^]t or k[a^]r"[e^]t), n. [L. caret
     there is wanting, fr. carere to want.]
     A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that
     something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin,
     which belongs in the place marked by the caret.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  caret
       n : a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where
           something is to be inserted into a text

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  caret
       
          ^
       
          Common: hat; control; uparrow; caret; {ITU-T}: circumflex.
          Rare: chevron; {INTERCAL}: shark (or shark-fin); to the ("to
          the power of"); fang; pointer (in Pascal).
       
       

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Caret, VA
    Zip code(s): 22436

















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