English Explanatory Dictionary

disease boat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In early societies, a boat, canoe, etc., in which community members suffering from a disease were exiled in the belief that the evil spirits of the disease would be carried away.

Word forms

disease boat disease boats
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