[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.15823 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15823 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15823 - **Language:** English ### [c10.15823](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15823) \*\*WOOLOCK, OOLOCK\*\*, s. \[Platts in his \*Hind. Dict.\* gives \*ulāq, ulāk\*, as Turkish, meaning ‘a kind of small boat.’ Mr. Grierson (\*Bihar Peasant Life\*, 42), among the larger kinds of boats, gives \*ulānk\*, “which has a long narrow bow overhanging the water in front.” Both he and Mr. Grant (\*Rural Life in Bengal\*, 25) give drawings of this boat, and the latter writes: “First we have the bulky \*Oolāk\*, or baggage boat of Bengal, sometimes as gigantic as the \*Putelee\* (see PATTELLO), and used for much the same purposes. This last-named vessel is a clinker-built boat—that is having the planks overlapping each other, like those in a London wherry; whereas in the round smooth-sided \*oolak\* and most country boats, they are laid edge to edge, and fastened with iron clamps, having the appearance of being stitched.”\] - [Previous: c10.15822](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15822) - [Next: c10.15824](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15824) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15823](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15823) · Pramāṇa