Lexicographical Neighbors of Masoolah
Literary usage of Masoolah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Oriental Interpreter and Treasury of East India Knowledge: A Companion by Joachim Hayward Stocqueler (1848)
"masoolah BOATS. The construction of keeled boats being, in many respects, unsuitable
to ... These vessels, called masoolah boats, are generally - of from ..."
2. India Revisited by Edwin Arnold (1886)
"The hardihood of these natives and the strength and energy of the wild, naked
masoolah boatmen—who drive their big open sewn craft over the waves with oars ..."
3. The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum: For the Public Functionary by John Borthwick Gilchrist (1825)
"At a little distance, the masoolah-boats appear like rude imitations of English
... The masoolah-boats are, very properly, under the sole management of the ..."
4. Historical and Descriptive Account of British India, from the Most Remote by Hugh Murray, James Wilson, Robert Kaye Greville, Robert Jameson, Whitelaw Ainslie, William Rhind, William Wallace, Clarence Dalrymple (1832)
"... called masoolah-boats, of a peculiar construction. They are of a clumsy
hog-trough shape, without timbers, and the planks are sewed together; ..."
5. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1882)
"the masoolah boat, which, like the catamaran, •will live in seas and pass safely
through surfs which would stave in boats built on the European model. ..."
6. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Claudius Buchanan, D.D., Late by Hugh Pearson (1819)
"The boatmen leaped out, and " kept the boat's head to the sea till she floated, "
and then forced her through the waves like a " masoolah boat. ..."
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