| 单词 | masula boat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmasula boat A large surf-boat used on the Coromandel Coast of south-east India, esp. for conveying passengers and goods between ships and the shore. Also masula boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > boat attendant on larger vessel > [noun] > boat plying between ship shore > constructed to pass through surf masula1675 surf boat1789 Monomoy1908 1675 in T. Bowrey Geogr. Acct. Countries Bay of Bengal (1905) 43 Having encreased the Mosullas from 7 to 13 and now to 17 we could as soon fill twice their number. 1679 in Diary & Consultation Bk. Fort St. George (Madras Presidency) (1911) 42 A Mussoolae..oversett in the breath of the Sea... Seaven of the Mussoola Men were seized. 1793 W. Hodges Trav. India 4 A boat of the country, called a Massoolah boat. 1826 R. Heber Jrnl. 5 Feb. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) II. xxviii. 270 The masuli-boats (which first word is merely a corruption of ‘muchli’, fish,) have been often described. 1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 203 The crazy ‘massulah’ boats..so often described by visitors to Madras. 1922 Glasgow Herald 13 July 6 A surf-beaten shore, the only landing on which is by means of clumsy masulah boats. 1974 M. Bence-Jones Clive of India i. 9 Clive had to cross the surf in a flimsy masula boat. < as lemmas |
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