prahu

How to use prahu in a sentence

• When off the island of Moora the Nemesis came suddenly upon a fleet of eleven pirate boats, pursuing a trading prahu.

  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

• The oars were got out, and the prahu proceeded up the creek, in the opposite direction to which it had entered it.

  Among Malay Pirates | G. A. Henty

• He might engage a prahu, though, and in it effect a crossing to Perang; he could even take the train and journey to another place.

  A Transient Guest | Edgar Saltus

• Then came the long prahu—also in tow—laden almost to the water's edge with her thirty passengers and their gear.

  The Last Voyage | Lady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey

• The boat was leaky and the water got in— Bochor prahu itu di-masok ayer dalam-nia.

  A Manual of the Malay language | William Edward Maxwell