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‖ jerm|dʒɜːm|
Also 7 germo, 7–8 germe, 9 djerm.
[Arabic jarm; in It. germa, F. djerme.]
A small one- or two-masted vessel with large lateen sails used on the Egyptian coast; formerly applied to larger trading vessels in the Levant.
1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 118 In Salonica I found a Germo, bound for Tenedos, in which I imbarked. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 281 At Roussetta we..imbarked by night in a Germe, and the next day were in Alexandria. 1799Naval Chron. II. 325 His Lordship set out from Alexandria in a germe, or open boat. 1800Ibid. XXIV. 222 Spoke a Jerm from El-Aarish. 1819T. Hope Anastasius (1820) I. xv. 292 On board one of the country djerms. |