What is "budgerow"

budgerow \budg"e*row\, n. [Hindi bajr[=a].] A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

n. A large, slow boat used in India.

Budgerows were 'large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boats, used for journeys on the Ganges'. The term is an Anglicisation of the Hindi word bajrā.