Present participle or gerund form of caravan; the act of traveling in or managing a caravan, or of moving goods via caravan.
From caravan + -ing suffix (English present participle), showing the ongoing action of caravanning across trade routes.
In modern British English, 'caravanning' means taking a motorized caravan on vacation—but the word originally meant one of humanity's most dangerous and essential activities, crossing deserts with fragile cargo.
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