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kaik

British  
/ kɑːiːəŋɡɑː, kaɪk /

noun

  1. the South Island dialect word for kainga

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In company with a French physician, I traversed the Bosphorus in a kaik.

From A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)

We were rowed thither in a two-oared kaik in an hour and a quarter. 

From A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)

On our return to our kaik, we saw near the shore an enormous cuttle-fish, more than fourteen feet in length, which had just been taken and killed. 

From A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)

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