An old scraggy woman; from a kind of float made of spars and yards lashed together, for saving ship-wrecked persons.
·noun A quarrelsome woman; a scold. II. Catamaran ·noun A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat. III. C...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
In the State of Maine, a raft for crossing rivers. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
A sort of raft used in the East Indies, Brazils, and elsewhere: those of the island of Ceylon, like ...
The Sailor's Word-Book