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PROA (Malay, prau)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 376 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PROA (See also:Malay, prau) , the See also:general See also:term in the Malay See also:language for all vessels, from the See also:sampan or See also:canoe to the square-rigged kapal, but in western usage confined to the See also:swift-sailing See also:craft that the pirates of the See also:Indian Ocean made See also:familiar to sailors in eastern See also:waters. The See also:chief points which characterize these vessels are that while the See also:weather-See also:side is rounded the See also:lee-side is See also:flat from See also:stem to stern, that both stem and stern are exactly similar in shape, and that there is a. small similarly shaped See also:hull swung out from the side of the See also:main hull on poles, which acts as an outrigger and prevents the See also:vessel heeling over. The main hull carries the See also:mast See also:rigging and an enormous triangular-shaped See also:sail.

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