单词 | bunder-boat |
释义 | > as lemmasbunder-boat 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. < as lemmas |
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