Catamaran

//ˈkæ.tə.məˌɹæn// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A twin-hulled ship or boat.

    "Swift over the seas the vessel drives; Madras appears in sight. The first object catching the eye, upon the anchor being cast, was an Indian upon his catamaran, who, making a sudden motion, sprung to the side of the ship, grappled there for a moment, and the next was on the deck."

  2. 2
    a boat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck wordnet
  3. 3
    A quarrelsome woman; a scold. colloquial, obsolete, rare

    "She meddles with my prescriptions for your wife; she doctors the infant in private: you'll never have a quiet house or a quiet wife as long as that old Catamaran is here."

  4. 4
    A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling. obsolete

    "Three or four strange-looking things now came close to our boat, which I understood were called ‘catamarans’, consisting of nothing more than two or three large trees, the trunk part only strongly lashed together, upon which sat two men nearly in a state of nature […] ."

  5. 5
    An old kind of fireship. obsolete

Etymology

From Tamil கட்டுமரம் (kaṭṭumaram), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to tie”) + மரம் (maram, “tree, wood”).

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