Definition of Montaria

1. a light canoe [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Montaria

montages
montaging
montagnard
montagnards
montan wax
montane
montanes
montanic
montanic acid
montanite
montanous
montant
montanto
montantos
montants
montaria (current term)
montarias
montbrayite
monte
monte-acid
monte carlo method
montebrasite
monteggia's fracture
monteggia fracture
monteith
monteiths
montem
montems
monteponite

Literary usage of Montaria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sketches of Residence and Travels in Brazil: Embracing Historical and by Daniel Parish Kidder (1845)
"None of the water craft, however, appear more picturesque than does the montaria, a species of flat boat, used much on these waters. ..."

2. Brazil and the Brazilians by Daniel Parish Kidder, James Cooley Fletcher (1866)
"None of the water-craft, however, appear more picturesque than does the montaria,—a species of flat-bo'at used much on THE montaria. these waters. ..."

3. Landscapes of Northern Portugal by Paul Burton, Denise Burton (2004)
"2 montaria — Viveiro Florestal — watermills — montaria (4.6km/2.9mi; ... Now retrace your outward route to montaria ..."

4. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: Being Records of Travel on the by Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace (1908)
"Once, when ascending a rapid with cables, which a man had carried in a montaria and made fast to a rock ahead, the montaria returning with all the velocity ..."

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