Proas is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROAS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PROA, a swift Malaysian sailing vessel, also PRAU, PRAHU, PRAO
• a type of sailing boat originating in Malaysia and Indonesia that may be sailed with either end at the front, typically having a large triangular sail and an outrigger.

Words related to PROAS

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How to use PROAS in a sentence

• Meet a Malay Fleet, and communicate with one of the Proas.
• The proas, which were fifteen in number, appeared to be of twenty-five to forty tons burden, and the fleet contained altogether at least three hundred men.
• Here are models of the junks, proas and fishing-craft, each structure pegged together and destitute of nails.
• Tortoise-shell is also found, but their chief source of trade consists in the number of boats and proas, of various sizes, they build of the timber which abounds in both islands.
• But fifty miles could be easily crossed, either by Malay proas or by the large Polynesian canoes.
• With the aid of the glass, it was ascertained that she was a brig, and not one of those Malay proas, which are generally used by the pirates of the Pacific.
• The chief of this last has seventy or eighty proas fit to undertake piratical expeditions.
• The Malay piratical proas are from six to eight tons burden, and run from six to eight fathoms in length.
• The proas returned to the point, and I was given to understand I might go on shore in safety.
• Their proas are narrow with outlagers on each side, like other Malayans.
• They are very dexterous active fellows in their proas, which are very ingeniously built.
• They have very neat paddles with which they manage their proas dexterously and make great way through the water.
• While we lay here 4 Malayan proas came from the shore, laden with coconuts, plantains, bananas, fowls, ducks, tobacco, sugar, etc.
• Near the shore lay a stout China junk, and a great many small vessels, namely brigantines, sloops and Malayan proas in abundance.

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