CATAMARAN

catamaran

(noun) a boat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

catamaran (plural catamarans)

A twin-hulled ship or boat.

(colloquial, rare, obsolete) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.

(obsolete) A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.

(obsolete) An old kind of fireship.

Synonyms

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): twinhull

Hypernyms

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): multihull

Hyponyms

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): AC45, AC72

Coordinate terms

• monohull

• outrigger canoe

Source: Wiktionary

Cat`a*ma*ran", n. Etym: [The native East Indian name.]

1. A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations.

2. Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed.

3. A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat. The incendiary rafts prepared by Sir Sidney Smith for destroying the French flotilla at Boulogne, 1804, were called catamarans. Knight.

4. A quarrelsome woman; a scold. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition