shikara

plural shikaras

1. IndianauticalA type of small wooden boat

   You can also take a shikara to a library right in the heart of the Dal.

   2016 June 19, “Cafe culture brews in chinar country”, in The Times of India

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   The thaw had come rapidly, as usual; many of the small boats, the shikaras, had been caught napping, which was also normal.

   1981, Salman Rushdie, chapter 1, in Midnight's Children