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What does "catamaran" mean?

Catamaran: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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.
  2. 3.A quarrelsome woman; a scold. [Colloq.]

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