Sampan is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SAMPAN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Chinese) a flat-bottomed Chinese skiff usually propelled by two short oars, also SANPAN
• a small boat of a kind used in East Asia, typically with an oar or oars at the stern.
• small boat with oars used in China
• A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters.
• an Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars

Words related to SAMPAN

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Words that contain SAMPAN

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How to use SAMPAN in a sentence

• He remembered a story in The Advertiser about a sampan that sank in the Pacific.
• Never was I permitted to put foot to a sampan on the sea.
• Twenty-five bags of rice would be coming off in a sampan directly, for stores.
• The surf, through which it is carried in an open boat, called a sampan lonchore, renders such accidents unavoidable.
• These are named koleh, are raised about two streaks on a sampan bottom, have one mast and an upright or square sail, but long in proportion to its breadth, which rolls up.
• Miller alone in the sampan, whilst several canoes full of people were rowing towards him, sent the pinnace with some sepoys to his assistance.
• Here, close by a torpedo store, I was put on board a sampan, a long, narrow boat, sharp at both extremities, with an awning.
• At the river side he left me to return to his solitary home, while I crossed the river in a sampan, and then set out over the hills to Chungking.
• But it only brings more clearly the remembrance that he began this life a sampan coolie and ended it with many millions.
• He had no desire to take a sampan and row out to the nearest cargo-boat and ship away to the Southern Seas, and sink himself in romance north or south of the Line.
• The meal was scarcely ended before the light sampan was back with good news.
• They meant to run down the slight sampan and hurl its occupants into the deadly current below.
• The two men in the sampan fought with set brows and clenched teeth to gain the far-off shore and save the lives of themselves and their comrades.
• In the sampan the Shan was still pulling with undiminished energy, but Jim Dent was beginning to pant.
• The sharp nose was within half a dozen feet of the stern of the flying sampan, for Dent and the boatman were once more pulling with all their might.
• A single word rang out from the steersman, and the rowers bent to one last tremendous effort to hurl their stout skiff upon the fragile sampan.
• Kneeling on one knee in the bottom of the sampan, Jack put all his strength into the strokes of the broad paddle.
• Jack was just beginning to thrust the paddle down for a strong, deep stroke when the sampan struck something.
• He felt the sampan turn turtle under him, and in another second he was shot into the dark, fierce current, and felt the waters close over his head.
• The fire in the bows of the sampan shone faintly in the distance with a hazy red glow.
• Before the sampan passed out of the lagoon into the creek he lifted his eyes.
• The God of Luck had smiled upon his boldness, and, reflecting upon it Kan Wong turned back to the river and the sampan that had so long been his floating home.
• The sampan now was but the empty shell of a water beetle, that had crawled upon the bank into the sun of Fortune to spill forth a dragon fly to try newly found wings of adventure.
• One of his chair coolies had witnessed the transportation of Spurlock by stretcher to the sampan in the canal.

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