pulwar

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Hindi पलवार (palvār)

Noun[edit]

pulwar (plural pulwars)

  1. A keelless riverboat used in northeast India and Bangladesh, chiefly to carry cargo. [from 18th c.]
    • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 40:
      When at sail, the Halder budgerow always towed another, smaller boat in its wake, a pulwar […]

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