[It. tartana: see TARTAN sb.2 TARTAN sb.2

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1588.  Ancaster MSS., in Hist. MSS. Comm. (1907), XLV. 113. They have almost two hundred Tartanars, which are a kind of fish boats they use in the Straits.

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1617.  Ld. Carew, Lett. (Camden), 92. They have allso 200 tartenas, which are a kind of flat-bottomde boates.

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1773.  Phil. Trans., LXV. 1. I hired a fishing vessel, called a tartana, with eighteen men in her.

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1884.  W. Sime, To & Fro, 17. Here are tartanas waiting the voyager.

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