单词 | bunder |
释义 | bundern. Anglo-Indian. A landing-place; a quay or pier; a port. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > landing-place strand1205 arrivala1450 slip1467 pow1481 arrivagea1500 landing-place1512 shore1512 landing1601 scale1682 bunder1698 gat1723 hard1728 loadberry1764 hardway1785 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 115 We..have Bundeos or Docks for our Vessels. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xviii. 209 The King granted us a Piece of Ground for a Bunder to repair our Ships and Vessels. 1809 M. Graham Jrnl. Resid. India (1813) 1 The new bunder, or pier. 1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson 97/2 Bunder, a landing-place or quay; a seaport; a harbour; (and sometimes also a custom-house). Compounds bunder-boat n. a boat, with a cabin amidships, for use along the coast, esp. near Mumbai (formerly Bombay). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > boat attendant on larger vessel > [noun] > boat plying between ship shore strand boat1670 bumboat1671 Moses1736 shore-boat1804 foy-boat1813 bunder-boat1825 bumbarge1839 tender1853 trot-boat1945 1825 R. Heber Jrnl. 11 Apr. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) II. 172 We crossed over..in a stout boat, called here a bundur boat, I suppose from ‘bundur’, a harbour. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 225 Bunder-boats, are obtainable at the piers. 1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson 97/2 Bunder-boat, a boat in use on the Bombay coast for communicating with ships at anchor, and also much employed by officers of the civil departments in going up and down the coast. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1698 |
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