ambatch
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ambatch
1860–65; perhaps < a source akin to Amharic əmb ( w ) ac'o, name for Rumex alismafolius
Example Sentences
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I was walking on the quay, when I heard a great commotion, and I saw a splashing in the river, the surface of which was covered with the ambatch fragments of a native canoe.
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker
Our native traders arrived daily in fleets of ambatch canoes from a considerable distance.
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker
There was no ambatch wood, but I thought we might form rafts by cutting and then drying in the sun the long tough stems of the papyrus rush.
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker
Marshes and ambatch, far as the eye can reach.
From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Sir Samuel White Baker
September 3.—This morning I crossed the river with about twenty men, some swimming with inflated skins, and others supported by logs of ambatch.
From The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs by Sir Samuel White Baker
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