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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 502 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CATAMARAN (a Tamil word, from catta, to tie, and maram
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wood)  , a surf-
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boat or raft used by the natives of
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Madras and along the Coromandel
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Coast in
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India . It is usually made of three
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tree trunks lashed together, the centre
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trunk being the largest and longest, and having one end
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bent upward to
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form a
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kind of
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prow . Catamarans of a larger
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size are in use in the
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West Indies and
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South
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America . The name is also given to two boats lashed together . Apparently through an erroneous connexion with
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cat, the name has been applied to a noisy scolding woman .

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