budgerow
English edit
Etymology edit
From Hindi [Term?].
Noun edit
budgerow (plural budgerows)
- (now historical) A large, slow-moving barge used in India.
- 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 218:
- In a short time after a budgerow lay beside the vessel, and notice was given that it came to convey about fifteen passengers on shore.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 39:
- A double-masted houseboat of capacious dimensions, the budgerow’s hull was painted blue and grey, to match the Raskhali estate's livery […]