单词 | martingana |
释义 | martinganan. Now historical. A kind of boat formerly used in Sicily and parts of the eastern Mediterranean. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > types of regional vessel > in Italy or Sicily marsilian1661 martingana1803 1803 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Rec.) (1941) III. 181 There was at that time in the Port of Tripoli among other vessels the Martegana commanded by Mustapha Rais... The said Martigana struck her Ottoman colors and hoisted the Tripolitan flag... Many Tripolitans..embarked on board the said Martingana and finally slipped the Cables. 1886 List of Ships Reported Dec. Abbrev., Ma. Martingana. 1893 F. M. Crawford Children of King I. 6 A couple of clumsy ‘martinganes’. 1972 Mariner's Mirror 58 203 There is evidence for the existence of the martingana during the nineteenth century in Italy, Tripoli, Malta, Greece and Turkey. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1803 |
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