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hong boat

hong boat noun: a kind of sampan with a small wooden house in the middle, used by foreigners at Canton.

Noun

hong boat (plural hong boats)

  1. (historical) A kind of sampan with a small wooden house in the middle, used by foreigners at Canton.

Forms of hong boat

pluralhong boats

Questions about hong boat

What does hong boat mean?
Hong boat means a kind of sampan with a small wooden house in the middle, used by foreigners at Canton.
What part of speech is hong boat?
Hong boat is a noun.
What is the plural of hong boat?
The plural of hong boat is hong boats.

Words near hong boat in the dictionary

  1. honfidence
  2. honfident
  3. hong
  4. hong bao
  5. hong baos
  6. hong boat
  7. hong boats
  8. hong gan
  9. hong kan
  10. Hong Kong
  11. Hong Kong dollar

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