sandolon.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xvii. 314 He was a sandola man, a sandola being a big boat that brings in fruit and produce from the islands.

1940 V. Woolf Roger Fry iv. 100 Row out across the lagoons in a sandolo.

1962 N. Mitford Water Beetle 123 Young men..ferry tourists from the steamer to the village in sandolos.

1966 J. G. Links Venice for Pleasure 223/2 Take a gondola or the smaller sandolo from Burano.

1969 B. Malamud Pictures of Fidelman vi. 154 Sandali sailed under bridges, heaped high with eggplants.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIX. 72/2 There are almost as many different kinds of watercraft in Venice as there are surface vehicles in a mainland city, from the dainty little sandolo, rowed standing with crossed oars, to giant ocean liners.