Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A launch or barge: a medium-sized boat used in the Philippine Islands for the transportation of merchandise and native products.
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Examples
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A lancha was a small vessel having no deck and but one mast, and propelled by sweeps.
The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco Eusebius J. Molera 1880
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Early in the morning we embarked in a sort of narrow canoe, called a lancha, in hopes of crossing the gulf of Cariaco during the day.
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Anxious to reach Cumana, in order to avail ourselves of the first opportunity that might offer for our passage to Vera Cruz, we hired an open boat called a lancha, a sort of craft employed habitually in the latitudes east of Cape Codera where the sea is scarcely ever rough.
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Anxious to reach Cumana, in order to avail ourselves of the first opportunity that might offer for our passage to Vera Cruz, we hired an open boat called a lancha, a sort of craft employed habitually in the latitudes east of Cape Codera where the sea is scarcely ever rough.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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A tin-hulled 'lancha' plows along the mighty Cuyuni River in Venezuela's south - eastern State of Bolivar close to the border with neighboring Guyana where it joins the Essequibo River to flow into the southern Atlantic Ocean
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A tin-hulled 'lancha' plows along the mighty Cuyuni River in Venezuela's south - eastern State of Bolivar close to the border with neighboring Guyana where it joins the Essequibo River to flow into the southern Atlantic Ocean
OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion 2009
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See if you can get a lancha to take you up the river and into the mangalares.
Tapachula vs. Tuxtla 2010
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See if you can get a lancha to take you up the river and into the mangalares.
Tapachula vs. Tuxtla 2010
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See if you can get a lancha to take you up the river and into the mangalares.
Tapachula vs. Tuxtla 2010
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See if you can get a lancha to take you up the river and into the mangalares.
Tapachula vs. Tuxtla 2010
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