almadie

English

Alternative forms

• almadia

Etymology

French almadie (compare Spanish & Portuguese almadia), from Arabic مَعْدِيَة (maʕdiya, “ferry”).

Noun

almadie (plural almadies)

1. A bark canoe used by the Africans.
2. A boat used in Calicut (modern Kozhikode) in India, about eighty feet long and six or seven feet wide.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “almadie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)