Papboat: Definition and part of speech

Papboat

  1. n. A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapha); — so called because used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.
  2. n. A kind of sauce boat or dish.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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