A dhow is a traditional Arab trading craft usually limited in size to about 40-100 feet and motor or sail powered. From Wordnik.com. [Persian Gulf Ship Inspectors-- The Brits Captured by Iran] Reference
The MoD confirmed two suspected pirates were killed by British crew members after the crew of a locally built "dhow" fired at them on Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [TFS Magnum] Reference
OTHER: Wood is used for dhow ribs and building poles. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
MCKENZIE: After days at sea, the dhow slips in before dawn. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2009] Reference
He spoke swiftly, his eyes never leaving the oncoming dhow. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
A dhow lay moored to a rough wooden jetty beyond the hamlet. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
However, the signal was repeated, and I had to have the dhow alongside. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
The U.S. destroyer confronted the dhow, chased it, and fired warning shots. From Wordnik.com. ['Piracy Today: Fighting Villainy on the High Seas'] Reference
From the dhow to the plate, how Tanzania's fishing industry delivers the goods. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2009] Reference
That dhow stood out to sea as if making for the ship and then proceeded along the coast. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
In the world of the East news travels like magic by Arab dhow (sailing ship) and camel caravan. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Missionary Heroes] Reference
Or did they think we had come to look into the question of a large Arab dhow, which was flying the. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
The sultan keeps a special dhow for the trade, and the Bedouin's life is given up to the production of butter. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
Commands were screamed from the dhow in a language that Sabin did not recognise but he could hear the urgency. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
A rope armed with an iron grapnel snaked across the short gap of churning water between the galley and the dhow. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Or take a ride on the restaurant's dhow — a sailboat cruise that includes dinner and dancing (tamarind. co.ke). —. From Wordnik.com. [4 Hours in Mombasa, Kenya] Reference
The diminished occupants of the dhow brandished their weapons and spat threats, but did not attempt to follow them up. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
TARIQ HASSAN, INTERIOR MINISTRY SPOKESMAN: Well, it's a dhow that had a number of passengers on board and got turned over. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2006] Reference
Zanzibar with our prize, that it was impossible for the steamer to make any way against it, especially with the dhow in tow. From Wordnik.com. [The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace] Reference
The ship very soon put a stop to that demonstration with a round or two of shrapnel, while we busied ourselves with the dhow. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Red Sea by dhow, keeping well inside the Farsan bank, which is three hundred miles long and a serious obstacle to patrol work. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
"Someone did witchcraft on me and my eldest son got polio," says Salim Mohamed Said, a dhow captain on the Kenyan island of Lamu. From Wordnik.com. [Witchcraft, Vengeful Spirits And The Plague] Reference
An excited colloquy ensued, the man pointing now to the Englishman, now to the aeroplane, and now to the dhow alongside the jetty. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
With mighty heaves, the crew of the dhow began hauling the galley in, causing her to turn in the water like a fly near a drain hole. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Cowes to see no more spirited sailing -- we had to put a shot across the bows of the leading dhow before they would abandon the race. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Their bodies would, no doubt, have been put over the side when the dhow was out of sight, and their rifles sold inland at a fancy price. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
She was only a trading dhow with a lot of Banians taking goods from the mainland to the islands; and so we had had all our chase for nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace] Reference
Burning with resentment and shame, he had sailed away in a dhow -- it had landed him at Beira -- believing that he would hate Zanzibar forever. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
One group were said to be involved in the seizure of a Yemeni fishing dhow and the kidnapping of twelve Yemeni fishermen, who were held as hostages. From Wordnik.com. ['Piracy Today: Fighting Villainy on the High Seas'] Reference
The buccaneers typically disguise themselves, pile aboard a large dhow and then sail up to 240km out to sea in search of slow-moving, low-hulled prey. From Wordnik.com. [The Scourge of Somalia’s Seas] Reference
Early one morning, about fifty miles out of Jeddah, I boarded a becalmed dhow and found them with the dregs of one empty water-skin between a dozen men. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Arab dhow passed by close inshore to where we were stretched almost lifeless on the sand, watching the monotonous sea that broke with a heavy wash on the beach. From Wordnik.com. [The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace] Reference
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