Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.13004

c10.13004

**SAMBOOK**, s. Ar. *sanbuk*; and *sunbūk* (there is a Skt. word *śambūka*, ‘a bivalve shell, but we are unable to throw any light on any possible transfer); a kind of small vessel formerly used in Western India and still on the Arabian coast. [See *Bombay Gazetteer*, xiii. Pt. ii. 470.] It is smaller than the *bagalā* (see **BUGGALOW**), and is chiefly used to communicate between a roadstead and the shore, or to go inside the reefs. Burton renders the word ‘a foyst,’ which is properly a smaller kind of galley. See description in the last but one quotation below.