tonin.
/ˈtəʊni/, U.S. /ˈtoʊni/ India.
†(a) A small South Indian sailing vessel. Obsolete. (b) A dugout boat. (c) A ferry boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > dug-out
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1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xxiv. 60 There came towarde him to ye number of lx. Tonys full of Souldiers.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias lxi. 125 a Coching, from whence they were minded to send the Tone which carried the pepper, laden with merchandise.
1622 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 154 One of their toneyes.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 70 Near to Zeilan, where they use flat-bottome boats, called Tune, because they have little bottome.
1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 734/2 Four Fishermen were coming to us in a Tony or Fisher-boat.
1803 R. Percival in Naval Cron. X. 26 Boats and donies employed in the fishery.
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. i. 103 Amongst the vessels at anchor lie the dows of the Arabs, the petamars of Malabar, the dhoneys of Coromandel.
1880 Standard 15 May 5/3 His Wardian cases will cumber the decks of Arab dhows, Coromandel dhoneys.
1881 Naval Encycl. 811/2 Tonee, a canoe formerly used on the coast of Malabar.
1894 Monthly Circ. Lloyd's Reg. Abbreviations..Dhy. Dhoney.
1914 Yachting Monthly June 83/2 Inshore the flood tide had already turned the tony and bunder boats, the former a canoe-like craft hollowed straight out from the tree.
1917 Yachting Monthly Sept. 268/2 The large Tonis are between 25 feet and 30 feet long.
1946 Mariner's Mirror 32 209 The ordinary Malabar dug-out, called toni in Bombay.
1978 Times of India 15 Jan. 3/5 Contraband radios and cassettes..were seized from a toni, Laxmi, on Thursday at the Ferry Wharf.
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