jermn.
/dʒəːm/ A small one- or two-masted vessel with large lateen sails used on the Egyptian coast; formerly applied to larger trading vessels in the Levant.
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1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 118 In Salonica I found a Germo, bound for Tenedos, in which I imbarked.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 281 At Roussetta we..imbarked by night in a Germe, and the next day were in Alexandria.
1799 Naval Chron. 2 325 His Lordship set out from Alexandria in a germe, or open boat.
1800 Naval Chron. 4 222 Spoke a Jerm from El-Aarish.
1819 T. Hope Anastasius (1820) I. xv. 292 On board one of the country djerms.
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