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Encyclopedia Britannica



DHOW

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 144 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DEM-DIO
DHOW , the name given to a type of vessel used throughout the Arabian Sea. The language to which the word belongs is unknown. According to the New
English
  Dictionary the place of origin may be the Persian Gulf, assuming that the word is identical with the tava mentioned by Athanasius Nikitin (India in the 15th Century, Hakluyt Society, 1858). Though the word is used generally of any craft along the
East
 
African
 
coast
 , it is usually applied to the vessel of about 150 to 200 tons burden with a
stem
  rising with a
long
  slope from the water; dhows generally have one mast with a
lateen
  sail, the yard being of enormous length. Much of the
coasting
 
trade
  of the Red Sea and Persian Gulf is carried on by these vessels. They were the
regular
  vessels employed in the slave
trade
  from the
east
 
coast
  of Africa.


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