sampans

They could deliver their weapons in sampans or pole boats.

Think Progress » Yesterday, Bush Said Confirming NYT Story “Would Compromise Our Ability To Protect The People” 2005

What's more, there had been several incidents of people in sampans trying to get close enough to U.S.

Tour of Duty 2003

What's more, there had been several incidents of people in sampans trying to get close enough to U.S.

Tour of Duty 2003

We know that long ago the Chinese visited it, for Chinese pottery has been found and to this day some of the native fishermen wear straw hats that closely resemble those which Chinese sailors in sampans use.

What Is To Become of the British Protectorates? 1944

Big, lusty Chinese in their wide, clumsy boats called sampans, swarmed in the harbour.

New Forces in Old China : An Inevitable Awakening 1904

Indigenous workboats (such as sampans, dugout canoes, chows, and the type of craft used on the Ganges, Nile, Zaire [Congo], and Mekong Rivers) with curved hulls 25-60 feet long are ideally suited to ferrocement's unique characteristics and take best advantage of them.

Chapter 5 1973

It is not without some difficulty that we push our way through the thronging craft, principally little boats termed "sampans," to our moorings abreast of the Dockyard.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

Also they had fifty sampans loaded with bridge materials.

JACK LONDON'S WAR 2010

These were intended for a permanent bridge across the Yalu at Wiju — The presence of the small navy and loaded sampans let the Russians to believe that there was where the bridge was to be built.

JACK LONDON'S WAR 2010

When the sampans came ashore Captain Johannes Maartens was all interest, for here were silks again.

Chapter 15 2010