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单词 sampan
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sampann.1

Brit. /ˈsampan/, U.S. /ˈsæmˌpæn/
Forms: Also 1600s–1700s champana, 1700s champan, champane, sampane, siampan, 1800s sampaan, sampang, sanpan.
Etymology: < Chinese san-pan (san three, pan board); compare Annamite tam-ban (tam three). Compare the Spanish spelling cempan (Oviedo 1535); also Portuguese champana.
1. A Chinese word meaning ‘boat’, applied by Europeans in the China seas to any small boat of Chinese pattern.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > types of regional vessel > in China
sampan1620
1620 R. Cocks Diary (1883) II. 122 Yt was thought fytt and brought in question by the Hollanders to trym up a China sampan to goe with the fleete.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xx. 72 Quiay Panian pursued them in a Champana.
1730 W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 9 Sept. Took in 2 Sampan Loads of Wood.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 296 Several Chinese Champans, or small Fishing-Boats.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sampaan, or Sampan, a neatly-adjusted kind of hatch-boat, used by the Chinese for passengers, and also as a dwelling for Tartar families, with a comfortable cabin.
2. U.S. (See quot. 1897.)
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1897 Outing July 362/2 But the bay has a boat whose style is peculiar to the place. It is called a ‘sanpan’, and is an eight-foot punt, made of a few pine boards, which in light winds simply skims along the surface of the water.

Compounds

sampan-wallah n. [wallah n.] a boatman in charge of a sampan.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor on other types of craft
brigantiner1555
gondolier1603
collier1716
Greenlandman?1785
junkman1795
surfman1816
Whitehaller1824
gig1833
yawler1833
coracler1834
keel-boatman1839
square-rigger1855
surf boatman1856
skiffman1868
flatman1883
yawlsman1885
packet rat1887
hookerman1894
scooterist1919
launchman1924
sampan-wallah1932
tanker man1932
hydrocyclist-
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Sept. 693/3 In time he became a sampan-wallah.
1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days vii. 123 The successful sampan-wallah turned and discharged at his rival a mouthful of spittle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

sampann.2

/ˈsampən/
Etymology: < Khoekhoe samban.
= tampan n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Acari or family Acaridae > member of (tick) > miscellaneous or unspecified types > member of genus Ornithodorus
tampan1861
sampan1898
1898 W. C. Scully Between Sun & Sand i. 8 The ground beneath is full of the dreaded ‘sampans’, which bury themselves in the flesh and cause serious injury.
1920 Glasgow Herald 2 Sept. 4 The minor plagues of scorpions and ‘sampans’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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