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‖ kuphar|ˈkʊfə(r)|
Also kufa; properly kuffah.
[ad. Arab. quffah, circular basket or pannier, circular wicker boat.]
A circular coracle of wicker-work covered with skins, used on the Euphrates. See Herodotus i. §194.
1800J. Rennell Geogr. of Herodotus 264 These [boats] were of a circular form, and composed of willows covered with skins... The same kind of embarkation is now in use in the lower parts of the same river, under the name of kufa, that is, a round vessel. 1827Tennyson Poems by Two Brothers 65 Where down Euphrates, swift and strong, The shield-like kuphars bound along. |