kupharn.
/ˈkʊfə/ A circular coracle of wicker-work covered with skins, used on the Euphrates. See Herodotus i. §194.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > boat made with hides > over wickerwork
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1800 J. Rennell Geogr. Syst. Herodotus 264 These [boats] were of a circular form, and composed of willows covered with skins... The same kind of embarkation is now in use in the lower parts of the same river, under the name of kufa, that is, a round vessel.
1827 Ld. Tennyson in Ld. Tennyson et al. Poems by Two Brothers 65 Where down th' Euphrates, swift and strong, The shield-like kuphars bound along.
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