catamaran

From Tamil கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to tie”) + மரம் (maram, “tree, wood”).

• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /ˌkæ.tə.məˈɹæn/, /ˈkæ.tə.məˌɹæn/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkæ.tə.məˈɹæn/, /ˈkæ.tə.məˌɹæn/

• CA synth

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catamaran (plural catamarans)

1. A twin-hulled ship or boat.
2. (colloquial, rare, obsolete) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
   • 1889, William Makepeace Thackeray, Hobson's Choice:

     She meddles with my prescriptions for your wife; she doctors the infant in private: you'll never have a quiet house or a quiet wife as long as that old Catamaran is here.

3. (obsolete) A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
4. (obsolete) An old kind of fireship.

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): twinhull

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): multihull

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): AC45, AC72

• monohull
• outrigger canoe

• cat (diminutive)

• trimaran

From Tamil கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to tie”) + மரம் (maram, “tree, wood”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta.ma.ʁɑ̃/
• Homophone: catamarans

catamaran m (plural catamarans)

1. catamaran, a twin-hulled ship or boat

• “catamaran” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English catamaran, from Tamil.

catamaran m (plural catamarans)

1. (Jersey) catamaran