lorchalorchn.
/ˈlɔːtʃə/, U.S. /ˈlɔr(t)ʃə/ /lɔːtʃ/ A fast sailing vessel built in China with the hull after a European model, but rigged in Chinese fashion, usually carrying guns.
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1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (1663) xv. 47 They entred our Lorch where most conveniently they could.
1857 R. Cobden Speeches (1878) 370 A vessel called a lorcha—which is a name derived from the Portuguese settlement at Macao, and which merely means that it is built after the European model not that it is built in Europe.
1896 Gen. Register of Shipping 2 Sept. Abbreviations..Lor., Lorcha.
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