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monoxyle|məʊˈnɒksɪl|
Also -xyl.
[a. F. monoxyle adj. (Littré), ad. Gr. µονόξυλον: see monoxylon.]
= monoxylon.
1774Misc. in Ann. Reg. 169/2 To these succeeded trunks of trees cut hollow, termed by the Greeks monoxyles. 1840Keightley Rom. Emp. iii. v. 376 The Goths embarked their warriors in three thousand monoxyls or canoes. 1885R. F. Burton Arab. Nts. IV. 168 note, Here it [sc. the Arab word] refers to the canoe..pop. ‘dug-out’ and classically ‘monoxyle’. |