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ballahou, ballahoo Naut. and W. Ind.|ˌbælaˈhuː|
[ad. Sp. balahú schooner.]
See quots. 1867 and 1958; also, applied contemptuously to a lubberly or ungainly vessel. Cf. ballyhoo of blazes.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 71 Ballahou, a sharp-floored fast-sailing schooner, with taunt fore-and-aft sails, and no topsails, common in Bermuda and the West Indies. The foremast of the ballahou rakes forward, the mainmast aft. 1889Cent. Dict., Ballahou, a fast-sailing two-masted vessel [etc.]. 2. A term of derision applied to an ill-conditioned, slovenly ship. 1923Conrad Rover iii. 39 What made for him the life of any strange shore were the craft that belonged to it: canoes, catamarans, ballahous, praus [etc.]. 1958J. Carew Wild Coast xx. 241 Doorne..rented out a fleet of ballahoos..so that those who did not own these flat-bottomed punts could ply up and down. |