Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15823

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**WOOLOCK, OOLOCK**, s. [Platts in his *Hind. Dict.* gives *ulāq, ulāk*, as Turkish, meaning ‘a kind of small boat.’ Mr. Grierson (*Bihar Peasant Life*, 42), among the larger kinds of boats, gives *ulānk*, “which has a long narrow bow overhanging the water in front.” Both he and Mr. Grant (*Rural Life in Bengal*, 25) give drawings of this boat, and the latter writes: “First we have the bulky *Oolāk*, or baggage boat of Bengal, sometimes as gigantic as the *Putelee* (see PATTELLO), and used for much the same purposes. This last-named vessel is a clinker-built boat—that is having the planks overlapping each other, like those in a London wherry; whereas in the round smooth-sided *oolak* and most country boats, they are laid edge to edge, and fastened with iron clamps, having the appearance of being stitched.”]