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单词 trankeh
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trankehtrankyn.

/ˈtraŋkeɪ//ˈtraŋki/
Forms: Also 1700s–1800s trankey.
Etymology: < Persian trānkeh, name in Persian Gulf for a pearl-diver's net, or perhaps its adjectival derivative trānkī, applied elliptically to a pearling-boat.
A small undecked vessel used in the pearl-fishery in the Persian Gulf.
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pearling lugger1887
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. vii. 57 And then got Trankies (or Barks without Decks) and shipt what belonged to the English for Musskat.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. vii. 59 A sufficient Number of small Vessels, called Trankies, for their Transports.
1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies ii. 28 Their trankys..are a kind of uncouth vessels, of seventy to a hundred tons.
1869 Latest News 17 Oct. The wind had fallen very light, and the trankies had taken in their sails, and were being impelled along slowly by means of the sweeps.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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