单词 | pitpan |
释义 | pitpann. In Central America and the Caribbean: a long flat-bottomed riverboat hollowed out of the trunk of a tree; a dugout. ΘΚΠ 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 troughc893 cot1537 monoxylon1555 toni1582 piragua1599 pitpan1726 log-canoe1752 monoxyle1775 corial1796 dugout1819 montaria1853 lakatoi1885 mokoro1897 doonga1905 curiara1910 1726 N. Uring Hist. Voy. & Trav. 230 They furnish themselves with a sufficient Number of Canows, Dories and Pit-pans, which last is like a Wort Cooler: They are made long and narrow, will carry two Men, and draw not more than Four Inches Water, which they make use of to go over the Shoal Places in the Rivers. 1810 Ann. Reg. 738/1 The Pit-pan being flat-bottomed, the Dory round. 1841 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer. I. i. 20 We..made an excursion in the government pitpan... Ours was about forty feet long and six wide in the centre, running to a point at both ends, and made of the trunk of a mahogany-tree. 1883 A. R. Gibbs Brit. Honduras 76 Pitpan-races on the river formed a much more interesting and agreeable feature of the carnival. 1897 Outing 30 248/2 They..carried me quickly to the river, where a pit-pan was in waiting. 1963 J. E. S. Thompson Maya Archaeologist vi. 170 From where the altar was left, it continued on tractor, train, and pitpan..to Belize. 1992 E. Hoagland in Balancing Acts 174 Putt-putts and pitpans (river craft), lobster boats, sailing sloops, and little lighters tie up here. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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