† lanchara Obs.
Also 7 lanchare, 9 lantcha.
[a. Pg. lanchara, ad. Malay lancharan (Kinkert), f. lanchār quick, nimble.]
‘A kind of small vessel often mentioned in the Portuguese histories of the 16th and 17th centuries’ (Yule).
| 1653 H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. ix. 27 These things being laden aboard a Lanchara with oars. Ibid. vii. 18 Five Lanchares. |