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‖ sambuk|ˈsæmbuːk| Also 6 sambuco, zanbuco, 9 sambucco, sambook, zambuck, zanbuc, 20 -buq. [Origin uncertain: in Arab. written sanbūq. Cf. Pg. zambuco, It. sambuco.] ‘A kind of small vessel formerly used in Western India, and still on the Arabian coast’ (Yule). Also attrib.
1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. x. 26 b, They discouered two Sambucos (which are little Pinnacies). 1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. lxiii. 129 b, Hee went to Mousanbique in a Zanbuco. 1855Burton Pilgr. El-Medinah & Meccah I. 263 The Sambuk [is a vessel] from 15 to 50 [tons burden]. 1872Beeton & R. Smith Livingstone & Stanley 15 Small vessels, called zambucks. 1887L. Oliphant Episodes (1888) 15 A sambook or craft such as are now used in those seas [about India]. 1891Nat. Rev. Feb. 729 Small barques, which they called zanbucs. 1906H. W. Smyth Mast & Sail 307 The Red Sea sambuk is generally from 18 to 20 tons only. 1938F. Stark Jrnl. 1 Mar. in Winter in Arabia (1940) 201 A king..sent for one thousand virgins from Somaliland across the sea; they were all shipped in a sambuq. 1942[see mashwa]. 1963Times 1 Feb. 14/6 They want a sambuq to meet them at Bir Sukaiya at noon next Wednesday—it's three hours' sail by sambuq from there to Perim. 1974Nat. Geographic Sept. 333 (caption) Sambuk, once the most common of Arab dhows, has ferried generations of Moslem pilgrims from Africa towards Mecca. 1975Financial Times 31 Oct. 5/4 The monsoon was pushing the seas too high, even for the sturdy sambuq fishing boats. |