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▪ I. sampan1|ˈsæmpæn|
Also 7–8 champana, 8 champan, -e, sampane, siampan, 9 sampaan, sampang, sanpan.
[a. Chinese san-pan (san three, pan board); cf. Annamite tam-ban (tam three). Cf. the Sp. spelling cempan (Oviedo 1535); also Pg. champana.]
1. A Chinese word meaning ‘boat’, applied by Europeans in the China seas to any small boat of Chinese pattern.
1620R. Cocks Diary (Hakl. Soc.) II. 122 Yt was thought fytt and brought in question by the Hollanders to trym up a China sampan to goe with the fleete. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xx. 72 Quiay Panian pursued them in a Champana. 1730Capt. W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of the ‘Lyell’ 9 Sept., Took in 2 Sampan Loads of Wood. 1745T. Pascoe Jrnl. Voy. S. Seas 296 Several Chinese Champans, or small Fishing-Boats. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Sampaan, or Sampan, a neatly-adjusted kind of hatch-boat, used by the Chinese for passengers, and also as a dwelling for Tartar families, with a comfortable cabin.
2. U.S. (See quot.)
1897Outing (U.S.) July 362/2 But the bay has a boat whose style is peculiar to the place. It is called a ‘sanpan’, and is an eight-foot punt, made of a few pine boards, which in light winds simply skims along the surface of the water.
3. Comb., as sampan-wallah [wallah], a boatman in charge of a sampan.
1932Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Sept. 693/3 In time he became a sampan-wallah. 1934‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days vii. 123 The successful sampan-wallah turned and discharged at his rival a mouthful of spittle.
▪ II. sampan2|ˈsæmpən|
[Khoi-khoin samban.]
= tampan.
1898W. C. Scully Between Sun & Sand i. 8 The ground beneath is full of the dreaded ‘sampans’, which bury themselves in the flesh and cause serious injury. 1920Glasgow Herald 2 Sept. 4 The minor plagues of scorpions and ‘sampans’. |