corocoron.
/kɔːrəʊˈkɔːrəʊ/ A boat used in the Malay Archipelago, = caracore n.
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1606 Last E.-Indian Voy. sig. E2 The formost of these Galleys or Caracolles recouered our shippe, wherein was the King of Tarnata.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. i. 356 We had sight of two Curra Curras between vs and Botun.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. v. ix. 677 An Holland Coracora which came from Amboyna with Letters to the Captaine.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 193 The shape of their Boates or Curricurroes haue this representation.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 194 A Curricurre or boat.
1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 23 A corocoro is a vessel generally fitted with out-riggers, with a high arched stem and stern, like the point of a half moon. They are used by the inhabitants of the Molucca islands chiefly.
1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 65 Got our stores, &c. very expeditiously on board, in a small new corocoro.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 240 Caracores are light vessels used by the natives of Borneo..and by the Dutch as guarda costas in those latitudes.
1798 in Naval Chron. (1799) 2 135 A Corrocorro is a vessel fitted with outriggers, having an high arched stem and stern.
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 210/1 This expedition was formerly performed in large corracorras, or vessels like yachts.
1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. II. xxiv. 69 The boat was one of the kind called Kora-kora, quite open, very low, and about four tons burthen. It had outriggers of bamboo about five feet off each side, which supported a bamboo platform extending the whole length of the vessel.
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