The Nautical Encyclopedia

Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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Dhow

Sea Terms

An Arab vessel of 150 to 250 tons.

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2026 Editor's Note: The dhow is alive: lateen-rigged cargo dhows still trade the Gulf and East Africa, and dhow racing is a rich man's sport in Dubai. The monsoon trade this entry assumes ran into the twentieth century. See dhow. (Ed: BR 2026-06-02)

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