budgerow

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From Hindi बजरा (bajrā).

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budgerow (plural budgerows)

  1. (India, chiefly historical) A kind of large river barge. [1727]
    • 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: [], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC, page 218:
      In a short time after a budgerow lay beside the vessel, and notice was given that it came to convey about fifteen passengers on shore.
    • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 39:
      A double-masted houseboat of capacious dimensions, the budgerow’s hull was painted blue and grey, to match the Raskhali estate's livery []

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