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mashwa|ˈmæʃwə|
Also machwa, mashua, mashuwa.
[Marathi, ‘fishing-boat’, f. Skr. matsya fish.]
A kind of small open boat (see quots.).
1885G. C. Whitworth Anglo-Indian Dict. 184/1 The machwás of different ports vary slightly in build. They are considered to be amongst the swiftest sailing-vessels known; they are very sharp in the bows, with hollow keel, well rounded in the stern, and the mast slopes a little forward; these vessels are chiefly made of teak, and cost from Rs. 300 to Rs. 400; they last about forty years. 1906H. W. Smyth Mast & Sail in Europe & Asia ix. 310 A smaller class of Zanzibar vessel is the mashuwa, or open fishing-boat worked by the Arab of the neighbourhood. They are generally dilapidated little crafts with the usual long bow and transom-stern. 1929Ibid. (ed. 2) x. 359 The term Mashwa, or Mashuwa on the African coast, is applied apparently to any small round-stern vessel, meaning originally a fishing-boat. The larger seagoing craft all carry a small ‘mashwa’ on deck. 1942Mariner's Mirror XXVIII. 21 The Mashwa or Machwa. The larger Arab fishing boats, the mashwas, are built after the design of the sambuk and the jehazi in their respective home ports. At Zanzibar they are employed also for the transport of coral rag and firewood. All are fitted with a single mast and are undecked save at the ends; the stern is of the square transom type; the tack of the sail is extended by means of a bowsprit as in the jehazi. 1948R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 453/1 Mashuwa, mashwa, generic name in the Persian Gulf and in Southern Arabia for an open ship's boat with straight or curved stem and transom stern, usually propelled by oars, but also rigged with one mast on occasion... This name also refers to a small open boat with raking stem and rounded stern of Deccan used for fishing and local trading on the Gujarat coast between Bombay and Cam-Bay. |