prahm

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Etymology

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Dutch praam and German Prahm, from Czech prám. Compare Polish prom.

Noun

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prahm (plural prahms)

  1. A flat-bottomed boat.[1]
    • 1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5:
      The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.

References

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  1. ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “prahm”, in The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, volumes II (P–Z, Supplement and Bibliography), Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 1407.

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