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Definitions of sampan in English

Noun(1) an Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars

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(1) My father was a sailor and we lived in a sampan , a house boat.(2) You'd think that a Royal Navy man would know that a sampan is not a sailing ship; it is a small boat usually propelled by two oars.(3) On day 12, they will go to My Tho in the Mekong Delta to visit a military snake farm before boarding the private sampan for a river cruise.(4) It's a poor fishing village where the people live in sampans and junks.(5) Simultaneously the Vietnamese pulled their sampans up onto the beach and began to unload something; he couldn't tell what, so he decided to illuminate the proceedings with a flare.(6) Cargo ships still to this day jostle with rice barges and fragile sampans (an Oriental boat propelled by a sail or oars), whilst porters sweat in the humidity loading the boats.(7) The hotel bar has incredible views over the harbour, past the flotilla of sampans , junks and cargo ships, to the jumble of skyscrapers which make up the Central district of Hong Kong island.(8) The sampans were first replaced by big wooden boats, and later by diesel ferries.(9) They spot two sampans and chase them to a small fishing village.(10) He had to keep his eye on tankers, cargo vessels and little sampans while keeping in mind he had just four meters of water, about 13 feet, between ship bottom and riverbed.(11) If only I could package the smells of a spice market in Istanbul, the sounds of gypsy music from Prague or the sights of sampans bobbing over the waters of Hong Kong harbour, I would send them home.(12) The alternative is a ride on one of the local speedboats - usually sampans with two motors to be chartered for Rp 3 million for up to six people.(13) Fishermen now use deep-sea trawlers and sophisticated fishing equipment, while sampans (small boats) ferry people between various points on the coastline along Victoria Harbour.(14) In the deep darkness of the Yuan River we were aware of other sampans near us filled with noisy passengers, and we prepared for trouble.(15) Transportation available is taxis, buses, car rental, express boats and long boats or sampans .(16) However, the thriving of the foreign shipping companies greatly harmed the business of sampans , and many locals suffered bankruptcy.

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