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‖ panchway, pansway E. Ind.|ˈpæntʃweɪ, ˈpænsweɪ|
Also 8 panguay, ponsway, paunchway.
[a. Hindī pansoī, Bengālī pançoī, pançī a boat.]
‘A light kind of boat used on the rivers of Bengal, with a tilted roof of matting or thatch, a mast and four oars’ (Yule).
1757J. H. Grose Voy. E. Ind. 20 Their larger boats, called panguays, are raised some feet from the sides with reeds and branches of trees, well bound together with small-cord. 1766Ibid. (ed. 2) Gloss., Ponsways, Guard-boats. 1793W. Hodges Trav. India 39 The paunchways are nearly of the same general construction [as budgerows]. 1823Heber Narr. Journ. India (1828) I. 4 A Panchway, or passage boat..large and broad, shaped like a snuffer dish; a deck fore and aft, and the middle covered with a roof of palm branches. |