kelongn.

1878 F. McNair Perak & Malays ix. 93 The kaylongs are made of hurdles composed of strips of bamboo, some five feet long, fastened closely together with rattans.

1900 W. W. Skeat Malay Magic v. 315 Kelong is the name given to one of the kinds of fishing-stakes (something like weirs) common on the coasts of the Peninsula.

1953 R. Graham War Damage Rep. (Malaya War Damage Commission) xiv. 52 As one approaches the coast of Malaya one cannot fail to notice the large number of fish traps, or kelongs, built in some cases far out to sea.

1971 Daily Tel. 18 Sept. 11/3 At Ponggol Point on the north~east shore you can dine at the Sea Palace restaurant on a kelong or fish trap of stakes driven into the shallow sea bed, where fish are lured by lamps at night into a net.

1972 Guardian 6 Sept. 16/4 Fashionable now is a kelong visit. The kelongs are thatched huts over stakes driven into the seabed from which local fishermen cast their nets. Some of these have been ‘improved’ with bar, restaurant, and changing rooms for tourists to spend the day swimming and sunning and in the evening watch the fishermen bring in their haul.