| 单词 |
corocoro |
| 释义 |
‖ corocoro|kɔərəʊˈkɔərəʊ|
Also 7 caracolle, coracora, curra curra, curricurre, -curro, 8 caracore, corrocorra, -corro, 9 kora-kora.
[ad. Malay kurakura. Cf. F. caracore, Sp. caracora, from which the English forms are chiefly derived.]
A boat used in the Malay Archipelago, = caracore.
1606H. Middleton Last East-Indian Voy. sig. E2, The formost of these Galleys or Caracolles recouered our shippe, wherein was the King of Tarnata. 1625Purchas Pilgrims I. iv. i. 356 We had sight of two Curra Curras between vs and Botun. 1626Ibid. v. ix. 677 An Holland Coracora which came from Amboyna with Letters to the Captaine. 1634T. Herbert Trav. 193 The shape of their Boates or Curricurroes have this representation. Ibid. 194 A Curricurre or boat. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 23 A corocoro is a vessel generally fitted with out-riggers, with a high arched stem and stern, like the point of a half moon. They are used by the inhabitants of the Molucca islands chiefly. Ibid. 65 Got our stores, &c. very expeditiously on board, in a small new corocoro. 1794[see caracore]. 1798in Naval Chron. (1799) II. 135 A Corrocorro is a vessel fitted with outriggers, having an high arched stem and stern. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg. 210/1 This expedition was formerly performed in large corracorras, or vessels like yachts. 1869A. R. Wallace Malay Archip. II. xxiv. 69 The boat was one of the kind called Kora-kora, quite open, very low, and about four tons burthen. It had outriggers of bamboo about five feet off each side, which supported a bamboo platform extending the whole length of the vessel. |
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