英和和英

別の表記

• panshway
• paunceway
• paunchway
• paunsway

語源

From Bengali পানসি (panśi, “pinnace”), from English pinnace.

名詞

panchway (複数形 panchways)

1. (India, now historical) A Bengalese four-oared passenger boat. [from 18th c.]
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 205:

     [A] Bengal boat called a paunceway came alongside, which Colonel Watson engaged to convey him to Calcutta.

   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 42:

     With a gesture of acknowledgement, Parimal retreated down the ladder and soon afterwards, a slim paunchway pulled away from the Raskhali budgerow to nudge up alongside the Ibis.