for CUPOLA: so Gundalo for GONDOLA. These errors are not uncommon.

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1767.  Wanted, a sett of good Hands, to load and tend on a Gundalo.—Boston Gazette, Sept. 21.

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1789.  A gondalo, deeply laden.—Mass. Spy, July 9.

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1835.  [These boats] resemble, only being must shorter, the “Down East” gundalow (gondola) so common on the rivers of Maine.—Ingraham, ‘The South-West,’ i. 105.

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1835.  Iph they’ll turn out a cupilo on four legs, we’ll run him down.—‘Col. Crockett’s Tour,’ p. 227 (Phila.).

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1845.  

        Two red-brick pillars guard the door,
  And for a splendid show,
To hold the weather-cock on top
  They ’ve clapped a ‘cu-pa-lo.’
Knick. Mag., xxv. 123 (Feb.).    

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