catamaran

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A clumsy affair called a catamaran, the acephalous ancestor of the torpedo, was expected to relieve the sea of some thousands of people who had no business there.

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  1. noun A boat with two parallel hulls or floats, especially a light sailboat with a mast mounted on a transverse frame joining the hulls.
  2. noun A raft of logs or floats lashed together and propelled by paddles or sails.

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  • Some little time after the last ugly head had gone under, the catamaran was sweeping swiftly and noiselessly down the stream again. —  Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
  • The new catamaran, an Austal Auto Express 107 will be named —  timesofmalta.com
  • The Bears '42-foot catamaran is called Allergic to Cities. —  TheDenverChannel.com - Local News
  • Boats, water scooters and even a catamaran were strewn on the streets. —  News First Colorado - KOAA.com
  • The Ryde to Portsmouth Wightlink catamaran was also disrupted by sea conditions yesterday, again reduced to an hourly service. —  Latest Isle of Wight News
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  1. Tamil kaṭṭumaram : kaṭṭu, to tie + maram, wood, log.

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  1. = French catimaron, from Hindustani katmaran, from Malayalam kettamaram (Tamil kattumaram), literally ‘tied logs,’ from ketta (= Tamil, Telugu, and Canarese kattu, a binding, a bond, tie, from katta (cerebral tt), bind) + maram = Tamil maram, a tree, wood, timber.
 

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