papboat
English
Etymology
pap + boat?
Noun
papboat (plural papboats)
- A kind of sauce boat or dish.
- (zoology) A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapa), once used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for papboat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)