montarian.
/mɒntəˈriːə/, U.S. /mɑn(t)əˈriə/ Now historical.
A type of dugout canoe used in the Amazon region.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > dug-out
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1853 A. R. Wallace Narr. Trav. Amazon iii. 68 A small montaria, which would just hold two.
1866 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 316/1 The water rippling softly around the montarias moored at my side.
1922 St. Nicholas May 750/2 In another second the montaria, half-filled with the water which it had shipped, capsized.
1936 Discovery Dec. 382/2 Whole families, with their montarías, the hire of which was included in the daily wage, were recruited near the collecting-grounds.
1988 New Yorker 22 Aug. 81/1 We sail with Bates in various types of now extinct sailing craft—the montaria, the cuberta, the igarité.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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