catamaran en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌkæ.tə.məˈɹæn/ (Canada, US)
- /ˈkæ.tə.məˌɹæn/ (UK)
- /ˈkæ.tə.məˌɹæn/ (Canada, US)
- /ˌkæ.tə.məˈɹæn/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Tamil கட்டுமரம் (kaṭṭumaram), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to tie”) + மரம் (maram, “tree, wood”).
Meanings
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A twin-hulled ship or boat.
Swift over the seas the vessel drives; Madras appears in sight. The first object catching the eye, upon the anchor being cast, was an Indian upon his catamaran, who, making a sudden motion, sprung to the side of the ship, grappled there for a moment, and the next was on the deck.
1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 218:
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(colloquial, obsolete, rare) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
She meddles with my prescriptions for your wife; she doctors the infant in private: you'll never have a quiet house or a quiet wife as long as that old Catamaran is here.
1889, William Makepeace Thackeray, Hobson's Choice:
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(obsolete) A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
Three or four strange-looking things now came close to our boat, which I understood were called ‘catamarans’, consisting of nothing more than two or three large trees, the trunk part only strongly lashed together, upon which sat two men nearly in a state of nature […] .
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90
- (obsolete) An old kind of fireship.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| catamarans | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
Descendants
catamarà · catamaran · catamarán · catamarã · catamarán
Hypernyms
multihull (twin-hulled ship or boat)
Hyponyms
AC72 (twin-hulled ship or boat) · AC45 (twin-hulled ship or boat)
Relateds
Synonyms
cat (twin-hulled ship or boat) · twinhull (twin-hulled ship or boat)
Translations (32)
fo tvíkilja (twin-hulled boat) · pt catamarã (twin-hulled boat) · de Katamaran (twin-hulled boat) · ja カタマラン (twin-hulled boat) · el δίγαστρο (twin-hulled boat) · pl katamaran (twin-hulled boat) · bg катамара́н (twin-hulled boat) · cs katamaran (twin-hulled boat) · nn katamaran (twin-hulled boat) · tr katamaran (twin-hulled boat) · es catamarán (twin-hulled boat) · cmn 雙體船 /双体船 (twin-hulled boat) · el καταμαράν (twin-hulled boat) · oc catamaran (twin-hulled boat) · fr catamaran (twin-hulled boat) · ta கட்டுமரம் (twin-hulled boat) · pl dwukadłubowiec (twin-hulled boat) · ko 뗏목 (twin-hulled boat) · he קָטָמָרָן (twin-hulled boat) · eu katamaran (twin-hulled boat) · cy catamarán (twin-hulled boat) · ca catamarà (twin-hulled boat) · fi katamaraani (twin-hulled boat) · nrf catamaran (twin-hulled boat) · ru катамара́н (twin-hulled boat) · uk катамара́н (twin-hulled boat) · da katamaran (twin-hulled boat) · ja 双胴船 (twin-hulled boat) · it catamarano (twin-hulled boat) · th เรือใบที่มีลำเรือสองลำ (twin-hulled boat) · nb katamaran (twin-hulled boat) · gv birling ghooblit (twin-hulled boat)