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Canara

British  
/ kəˈnɑːrə /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Kanara

"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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From the Aliga to Mount Delli or Dilly is about 46 leagues, with these towns, Onor, Baticale, Barcalor, Baranor, and others of the province of Canara which is subject to the king of Bisnagar.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

The fifth division begins where Canara parts from the Decan and ends at Cape Comorin, containing above 140 leagues.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

From South Canara, Mr H. Latham sent me a planarian worm, about two inches in length, which is believed to be the vettila poochi.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

There is in Barbosa a description of the duello as practised in Canara, which is rather too like this one.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule

Finally we arranged with a British India steamer, the Canara, that it should 'deviate' and deposit us there for a consideration.

From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent

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