patela

Patela

Pat"e*la\, n. [Hind. patel[=a].] A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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