The first design was simply a raft made of tree trunks built in the fishing communities of Tamil Nadu in southern India and used to invade several Southeast Asian countries as early as the 5th century.

Catamaran tree meaning. Catamarans come in all shapes and sizes from the tiniest beach cats you can lift with a friend or giant 70ft luxury ships worth millions of dollars. By a supporting deck. A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together the middle piece being longer than the others and serving as a keelon this the rower squats and works a paddlemuch used in the Madras surf.

These boats date back to the early centuries. Catamaran definition is - a vessel such as a sailboat with twin hulls and usually a deck or superstructure connecting the hulls. In general one can differentiate between motor catamarans motor ship and.

A clumsy affair called a catamaran the acephalous ancestor of the torpedo was expected to relieve the sea of some thousands of people who had no business there. A raft consisting of two or more logs tied together. A kind of raft or float consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together and moved by paddles or sail.

The word catamaran is a loan word from Tamil from கடடமரம kaṭṭumaram from kaṭṭu ribbon bundle and maram tree meaning boat made from tied tree trunks. They started off as simple fishing rafts made from bound tree trunks and were favored vessels throughout Polynesia and Micronesia. The first Catamaran was created in India borrowing its modern name from the original Tamil word kattumaram meaning logs bound together.

A raft used on the St Lawrence River by lashing two ships together. An old kind of fire-ship long superseded. It has two hulls that are side by side linked by a single deck.

A sailing or sometimes motored vessel with twin hulls held parallel by a rigid framework. The English word catamaran is derived from the Tamil word kattumaram கடடமரம which means logs bound together. Catamaran in British English.