panchway

plural panchways · alternative panshway · alternative paunceway · alternative paunchway · alternative paunsway

1. IndiahistoricalA Bengalese four-oared passenger boat.First known use 18th c.

   [A] Bengal boat called a paunceway came alongside, which Colonel Watson engaged to convey him to Calcutta.

   1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 205

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   With a gesture of acknowledgement, Parimal retreated down the ladder and soon afterwards, a slim paunchway pulled away from the Raskhali budgerow to nudge up alongside the Ibis.

   2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 42