单词 | pitpan |
释义 | pitpan|ˈpɪtpæn| Also 9 pittpan. [? Native name.] A long flat-bottomed boat hollowed out of the trunk of a tree, used in Central America; a dugout.
1798Col. Barrow in Naval Chron. (1799) I. 247 Canoes, dories, and pit pans. 1810Ann. Reg. 738/1 The Pit-pan being flat-bottomed, the Dory round. 1854J. L. Stephens Centr. Amer. 8 We..made an excursion in the government pitpan... Ours was about 40 feet long and 6 wide in the centre, running to a point at both ends and made of the trunk of a mahogany tree. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 248/2 They..carried me quickly to the river, where a pit-pan was in waiting. |

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