Obs. Also 7 lanchare, 9 LANTCHA. [a. Pg. lanchara, ad. Malay lancharan (Kinkert), f. lanchār quick, nimble.] ‘A kind of small vessel often mentioned in the Portuguese histories of the 16th and 17th centuries’ (Yule).
1653. H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., ix. 27. These things being laden aboard a Lanchara with oars. Ibid., vii. 18. Five Lanchares.
