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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A heavy boat employed in Russia in the transportation of timber, especially from Astrakhan to Moscow.
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-oons (once of more than one syllable)
Originally this list was to contain multisyllabic words that end in "oon," but as you can see from the comments, all hell broke loose.
doubloon, poltroon, spittoon, patroon, dragoon, bassoon, platoon, typhoon, rangoon, maroon, pontoon, monsoon and 96 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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Selected Terms from Falconer's New Un...
1815 edition; ed. William Burney (London: Chatham Publishing, 2006).
widows' men, ballatoon, boomkin, leefange, falconet, maculae, lepus, koff, pardo, periagua, dingass, saik and 238 more...
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.la mer
ballast, barnacle, brackish, brine, shell, shore, nautical, kelp, krill, littoral, nautilus, estuary and 14 more...
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chained_bear "Ballatoons, are large heavy barks, or luggage-boats, used for carrying wood, by the river, from Astracan, and the Caspian sea, to Muscow (sic); They are of an extraordinary length and breadth, their prows and sterns rounding alike to a point; and they carry from 150 to 200 ton, and from 150 to 200 men, to row and tow them along the rivers."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine, 1815 Oct 10, 2008