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▪ I. panga1|ˈpɑːŋgə|
Also ponga, pongo.
[a. Amer. Sp. panga a boat.]
A flat-bottomed boat with rising stem and stern.
1927G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 124/2 Panga, a flat-bottomed rowboat of Central America. 1948R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 517/1 Panga, a dug⁓out canoe from Panama, double-ended with rising stem and stern. These craft are about 18 ft. long by 4 ft. 6 in. wide and are cut out of one cedar log. 1970National Fisherman Jan. 18b/4 The chaser-skiffs, also called speed⁓boats or pongos, are lowered overboard. 1971Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 4 July 15/3 The reds and greens and yellows of the double-ended pongas which the lobster and bonito fishermen took far out to sea. 1978Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 7 May 17/2 We haul anchor as soon as the ship-to-shore shuttle, called a panga, brings aboard the last of our cruise-mates.
▪ II. panga2|ˈpæŋgə|
[Swahili.]
A large knife used in Africa either as an implement or as a weapon. Also attrib.
1935E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. (1936) iv. i. 216 Chopping our way through with the long brush knives that are called pangas. 1952Time 3 Nov. 36 Once pooh⁓poohed as mere ‘press exaggeration’, the Mau Mau have already mutilated scores of whites and ‘loyal’ blacks, with their favorite weapon, the panga—a long, machete-like knife. Ibid. 10 Nov. 38/3 On the front of the governor's car waved his official flag: two crossed pangas (broad⁓bladed African knives used to chop bananas). The pangas seemed symbolic last week, for Kenya Colony, the brightest jewel in Britain's East African Empire, is bleeding badly in a panga war. 1953Ibid. 12 Jan. 26/1 There was a noise at the door, a shout, and a gang of Mau Mau thugs, led by the ranch's male cook, burst into the living room, brandishing panga knives. 1953Newsweek 6 Apr. 38/3 As the villagers ran from their blazing homes, waiting Mau Maus struck them down with pangas (long knives) and hatchets. 1954D. H. Rawcliffe Struggle for Kenya ix. 86 The isolated loyalist groups in the reserves..were still armed with little more than pangas and spears. 1955O. Meeker Report on Afr. xii. 199 But until I reached Kenya no-one said a word about the Mau Mau terrorists, secret society oaths, the long knives called pangas, or the other Kikuyu specialities. 1964C. Willock Enormous Zoo viii. 138 African butchers sharpened their pangas on stone. 1969Daily Tel. 28 Oct. 16 An African Presbyterian Minister was killed by a panga gang for refusing to take Kikuyu tribal oaths. 1972J. McClure Caterpillar Cop iii. 34 ‘I hear the murder was sometime around six.’.. ‘Usual bit of passion and panga.’ 1976Maclean's Mag. 6 Sept. 51/2 Zulu mobs rampaged through Soweto armed with pangas (cane cutters), axes, spears, and knives. 1976Survey Summer-Autumn 303 Forest fighters had..often only the ordinary rural blade of East Africa, the panga. 1977D. Beaty Excellency xii. 139 The soldiers had taken out panga knives and were cutting down thorn bush and scrub. |