Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See pram.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Naut.) A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.

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  • noun Alternative form of pram. (flat-bottomed boat)

Etymologies

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Dutch

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Examples

  • This heroic stripling had volunteered the command of a sort of raft, called a praam, carrying twenty-four guns, and a hundred and twenty men; on which, having pushed off from shore, in the fury of battle, he got under the stern of his lordship's ship, below the reach of the stern-chasers, and fired with considerable effect.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

  • This heroic stripling had volunteered the command of a sort of raft, called a praam, carrying twenty-four guns, and a hundred and twenty men; on which, having pushed off from shore, in the fury of battle, he got under the stern of his lordship's ship, below the reach of the stern-chasers, and fired with considerable effect.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson Harrison, James 1806

  • Ma olen üsna arusaaja inimene, aga vaat sellest ma aru saada ei kavatse... noh, et kuidas saab XXI sajandil ja nädalalõpul sõita vaid üksainus praam!

    Esimene päev HÕFF-il Ulmeguru 2010

  • The little praam takes the ground in the bay a few yards from the beach, and in the midst of a constellation of “jelly-fishes” spherical in form and varying in size.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • As he passed the line, he found the AGGERSHUUS praam in a more miserable condition than his own; her masts had all gone by the board, and she was on the point of sinking.

    The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

  • Captain Rothe commanded the NYEBORG praam; and perceiving that she could not much longer be kept afloat, made for the inner road.

    The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

  • "Ja," the Norwegian answered, twisting his quid from the left to the right cheek, "she vas foundtz; and vat is droltz de bags of flour she have in de praam, dough dey been long timetz in de vater, vere quite drytz -- de middle quite drytz."

    A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

  • "Ah?" said I. "Ja," replied the Norwegian; "she row one praam cross de top of de foss, and de praam roltz over, and she vas drowntz."

    A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

  • Slipping out of harbour unobserved in the night in his fastest sailing praam, he escaped to Trincomalee in Ceylon, where the East India

    The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919

  • When the Sultan retired from practice to the Island of Ceylon he gave his brother his praam, a fast vessel armed with thirty-eight guns.

    The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919

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