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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE |
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PRAM (Du. praam) , the name of a flat-bottomed boat or barge used as a " lighter " for discharging and loading cargo in the ports of the Baltic and North Sea. The word, which is common in various forms to all the languages bordering on those seas, is originally Slavonic; its ultimate etymology connects it with the words found in all Indo-European languages which are to be traced to the root par-, to go through, travel; cf. " fare," " ferry," " far," Gr. w6pos, way, Lat. port are, carry, &c. born at Landsberg on the Lech on the 28th of January 182o, and died on the 14th of September 1888 at Oberstdorf. In 1843 he became doctor
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