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‖ pattamar, patamar E. Ind.|ˈpætəmɑː(r)|
Also 7 patte-, 8–9 patti-, pattymar, -maur, 9 petamare.
[a. Pg. patamar, a. Konkani pâtamâr courier, pātamāri, Malayāl. pattamāri, Marāthī patēmāri, Gujarātī phatēmāri dispatch-boat, f. Marāthī patta tidings + -māri, in Marāthī, carrier.]
†1. An express foot-messenger, a courier. Obs.
1598W. Phillip Linschoten 73/2 There are others that are called Patamares, which serue onlie for Messengers or Posts, to carie letters from place to place by land. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 111 The Pattamars, the only Foot-posts of this Country, who Run so many Courses every Morning. 1757J. H. Grose Voy. E. Ind. x. 192 Betwixt Surat and Bombay there is a constant intercourse preserved..by Pattamars, or foot-messengers, over land. 1782Char. in Ann. Reg. 50/1 This mendicant order of religious often supply our patty-maurs with provisions on their journeys.
2. An Indian advice-boat or dispatch-boat; spec. a lateen-rigged sailing-vessel, with one, two, or three masts, used on the west coast of India.
1704Collect. Voy. (Churchill) III. 740/2 Patamars are Indian Advice-boats cover'd all over for the Carriage of Letters. 1800Wellington Suppl. Desp. (1858) II. 341, I take the opportunity of the dispatch of a Pattamar boat from hence. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 101 To engage a pattamar, or large sea-going boat. 1859Tennent Ceylon II. 103 Among the vessels at anchor lie the dows of the Arab, the petamares of Malabar, the dhoneys of Coromandel. |