Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.13031

1622.—“Yt was thought fytt . . . to trym up a China *Sampan* to goe with the fleete. . .”—*Cocks’s Diary*, Hak. Soc. ii. 122.