budgerow

plural budgerows · alternative bajra · alternative bugerow · alternative budgeroe · alternative budgero

1. IndiahistoricalA kind of large river barge.First known use 1727

   In a short time after a budgerow lay beside the vessel, and notice was given that it came to convey about fifteen passengers on shore.

   1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 218

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   A double-masted houseboat of capacious dimensions, the budgerow’s hull was painted blue and grey, to match the Raskhali estate's livery […]

   2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 39