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paunceway

paunceway is the alternative form of panchway.

Meaning of panchway

Noun

panchway (plural panchways)

  1. (India, historical) A Bengalese four-oared passenger boat.
    • [A] Bengal boat called a paunceway came alongside, which Colonel Watson engaged to convey him to Calcutta.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 205

Forms of paunceway

pluralpaunceways

Questions about paunceway

What is paunceway the alternative form of?
Paunceway is the alternative form of panchway.

Words near paunceway in the dictionary

  1. paums
  2. paunce
  3. pauncer
  4. pauncers
  5. paunces
  6. paunceway
  7. paunceways
  8. paunch
  9. paunch mat
  10. paunch mats
  11. paunched

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