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Definition of Sampans

Sampan
Sampan Sam"pan, n. (Naut.) A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters. [Written also sanpan.]

Meaning of Sampans from wikipedia

- A sampan is a relatively flat-bottomed Chinese and Malay wooden boat. Some sampans include a small shelter on board and may be used as a permanent habitation...
- It is peddled by the sampans cruising on the Pearl River. Selling sampan congee was one of the livelihoods of these boats. Sampan congee is made from rice...
- Sampan is a newspaper based in Chinatown in Boston, M****achusetts. It is New England's only bilingual Chinese and English newspaper. The newspaper was...
- Berncastle in 1850 describes the sampan panjang as very light boats and was elegant in shape. He notes that the sampans were propelled by paddles or lateen...
- observed an unknown size enemy force in sampans 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Cao Lanh. The gunships attacked the sampans with machine guns and rockets and...
- Sampans (French pronunciation: [sɑ̃pɑ̃]) is a commune in the Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Communes of the...
- Indonesian sampans 1 mile from Raffles Lighthouse. Upon interception of the unlit sampans, Teal was fired upon with automatic weapons from the sampans. The...
- Suddenly, Viet Cong manning two sampans opened fire on the Americans. While Williams and his men neutralized one sampan, the other one escaped into a nearby...
- Sampan Kesi (Thai: สัมพันธ์ เกษี, born 3 July 1999) is a Thai professional footballer who plays as a left back for Thai League 1 club Khon Kaen United...
- Sampan, also known as San-Ban, is a 1968 film which was the first feature directed, written and co-produced by Terry Bourke. The film was successful at...