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‖ massoola(h|mæˈsuːlə|
Forms: 7 musoola, 7, 9 mussoola, 8 (mausolo), 9 (masuli), muss-, mas(s)ulah, mussoolah, 8–9 mas(s)oola, massoolah.
[Of obscure origin: see conjectures in Yule.]
A large surf-boat used for conveying passengers and goods between ships and the shore on the Coromandel coast. Often massoolah-boat.
1685W. Hedges Diary 3 Feb., This morning two Musoolas & two Cattamarans came off to y⊇ Shippe... [We] got into y⊇ Mussoola. 1760–1879 [see quots. in Yule s.v. Mussoola]. 1793Hodges Trav. India 4 A boat of the country, called a Massoolah boat. 1899F. T. Bullen Log Sea-waif 203 The crazy ‘massulah’ boats..so often described by visitors to Madras. |