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English
Etymology
Dutch praam and German Prahm, from Czech prám. Compare Polish prom.
Noun
prahm (plural prahms)
- A flat-bottomed boat.[1]
1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5:The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
References
- ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “prahm”, in The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, volumes II (P–Z, Supplement and Bibliography), Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 1407.
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