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- noun Plural form of
tongkang .
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Canoes: dug-outs; _pakerangan_; prahus; tongkangs; steering gear; similarity to ancient Vikings 'boat; boat races.
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884
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The trading boats -- _prahus_ or _tongkangs_ -- are clumsy, badly fastened craft, not often exceeding 30 tons burthen, and modelled on the Chinese junk, generally two-masted, the foremast raking forward, and furnished with rattan rigging and large lug sails.
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884
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S.F. activists protest 'toxic' compost transport on the Rajang River, launches or 'tongkangs' as they are locally known, are in danger of being swept away by the
WN.com - Articles related to Asian stock markets mixed, European shares gain 2010
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It’s a strange vessel; like most tongkangs, it is wooden and looks homemade.
Archive 2007-03-01 Glenda Larke 2007
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Bananas and salt sacks, a heap of kitchen gas tanks, young oil palm plants and a wheelbarrow loaded with long beans - even a washing machine - pass us by, to be shouldered or humped on to one or another of the long wooden “tongkangs.
Archive 2007-03-01 Glenda Larke 2007
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