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bellum|ˈbɛləm|
Also bellam, etc.
[a. Pers. balam; cf. balaum s.v. Baloon in Yule Hobson-Jobson.]
A small boat or canoe used in ports along the shores of the Persian Gulf.
1901Wide World Mag. VI. 464/1 Queenie was landed easily enough in a bellum. 1916V. Horsley Let. 18 May in S. Paget Life (1919) 319 The whole real traffic of the place is done..by ‘bellums’: these are exactly like dugouts. 1916T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 319 The native boats give a character to Basra... You..shop or pay your calls in a ‘Bellam’. A bellam is a sort of gondola, thirty or forty feet long, about four feet wide, and shallow. Two men work them, either by sculls, or by poling along with a light bamboo... The bellam is the passenger boat. 1919Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 23/2 The bellem..is a down-river boat peculiar to the city of pale-pink Persian roses—Basra. |