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catamaran (n.)
East Indies log raft, 1670s, from Hindi or Malayalam, from Tamil (Dravidian) kattu-maram "tied wood," from kattu "tie, binding" + maram "wood, tree." It also was used in the West Indies and South America.
also from 1670s
Trends of catamaran
adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams are probably unreliable.
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updated on October 19, 2017
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