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corial|kɒrɪˈɑːl|
Also 8 corialla, 9 curial, corrial, 20 coreal.
[Sp. corial, app. ad. Arawak kuljara.]
In Guyana, a dugout canoe with pointed ends.
1796J. G. Stedman Surinam I. x. 240 A corialla or small canoe, composed of one single piece of timber. 1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. 223 We met the Indians going a fishing. I saw, by the way their things were packed in the curial, that they did not intend to return for some days. 1833Evangelical Mag. Mar. 124/2 We set out in a corial, or small canoe, to visit the new station. 1852C. W. Day Five Yrs. West Indies II. 18 We hailed a ferryman, who came over in a most ticklish corrial. 1922Blackw. Mag. Apr. 525/2 People coming off..in bateaux and corials. 1951E. A. Mittelholzer Shadows Move i. i. 7 Logan must be getting ready to take the corial and the skiff out into the stream. 1958J. Carew Wild Coast vii. 89 He had poled his coreal out to the public road. |