nuggar

/ ˈnʌɡə /

noun

1. a sailing boat used to carry cargo on the Nile

Word History and Origins

Origin of nuggar¹

from Arabic

Example Sentences

A year ago an escort of five or six soldiers used to accompany each nuggar either coming up or down.

From Project Gutenberg

The rope strained as if it would snap; the bows of the nuggar were buried in foam, and the men hauling were forced to take the corporal’s hint, and keep their breath for other purposes than conversation.

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“A regular Nile reis, with his crew of four natives, would never have stuck the nuggar there.”

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What with poling, and shoving, and pulling at the rope, the nuggar was floated once more at last, and on they went again, and by-and-by the river widened, and the current was not so strong, and so long as they kept the rope pretty taut the boat came along without any very great exertion.

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Those were the conditions under which certain picked British soldiers, one of whom was an old friend of ours, lost sight of for a considerable time, were dragging their nuggar up a series of cataracts.

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