Meanings (ES + gloss)
chalana
A flat-bottomed vessel once employed by British merchants, notably in East Anglia, sometimes converted into pleasure boats.
Here I used to enjoy myself in playing about the bridge stairs, and often in the watermen's wherries, with other boys. On one of these occasions there was another boy with me in a…
The river was astir early and late with barges, wherries, and craft of every description.
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