hong boat

noun

A kind of sampan with a small wooden house in the middle, used by foreigners at Canton.

Meanings

nounhong boat (plural hong boats)

plural hong boats

  1. historicalA kind of sampan with a small wooden house in the middle, used by foreigners at Canton.
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