Almadia

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A river-boat used in India, shaped like a shuttle, about 80 feet long and 6 or 7 broad.
  • noun. A small African canoe made of the bark of trees. Some of the larger square-sterned boats of the negroes are also thus designated.
  • noun. Also written almadie, almady.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A bark canoe used by the Africans.
  • noun. A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.
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  • noun. Alternative form of almadie.
    • Word Usage
    "And I set sail at once to go to the other large island which I saw at the west, and commanded the other almadia to be set adrift, which the caravel Nina was towing astern."
    Equivalent
    almadie  
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