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Boat of the Far East
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sampan
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) A flat-bottomed Chinese wooden boat propelled by two oars.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Motorized barges, sampans and lighters were moving on the water. ▪ The net on the sampan was swinging a little, in a light wind.
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A sampan is a relatively flat bottomed Chinese wooden boat . Some sampans include a small shelter on board, and may be used as a permanent habitation on inland waters. Sampans are generally used for transportation in coastal areas or rivers, and are often ...
Usage examples of sampan.
He rode in a sampan sculled by four of his best boatmen and guarded by nine of his select guards.
Opening the curtains of the sampan, Nishima saw small whitecaps sweeping across the lake and suddenly the sailboats seemed to be hurrying on their way.
Acolyte Tesseko sat in the prow watching the large junks and river barges as the sampan glided past them.
Lord of the Shonto sat beside his Spiritual Advisor in the sampan, saying nothing.
Komawara stepped into his sampan and seated himself without even a nod to his guard or boatmen, so lost in thought was he.
Jaku Katta watched his brother go, watched his sampan disappear into the mist and the traffic on the canal.
But if Okamoto or anybody else thought the sampan fleet could feed Oahu by itself .
Once the sampan sailed out onto the Pacific, though, things would get more complicated.
If three or four other boats could spy the sampan, Jiro could see them, too.
He would sooner have slammed the sampan into a pier than admitted that to his father.
You put somebody with a university degree in a shoe store or a grocery or out on a sampan and he starts wondering why the heck he bothered.
He used a pencil for a pointer to show just where the sampan had gone.
A clutch of junks, red sails catching the sun, hovered near an inlet, and a sampan glided by with a solitary figure standing at the scull.
When a small sampan loaded with fresh fruit came aside the longboat, he bought two oranges and presented them to her.
But the panicked sampan men ignored the desperate cries for help and left the swimmers to drown.