catamaran ((v.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1v.

join two boats or kayaks together to gain stability in rough water.

Quotations

1924

Our boat, sixteen feet long, and the kayak, we would catamaran if we came upon rough weather.

1936

. . . kayaks were catamaraned and . . . a bevy of battered old canoes were launched.

2v. — Rare

move or travel in a boat or kayak rigged in this way.

1924

For three days an endless chain of them plied the ship's dories, and their own kayaks catamaraned between ship and shore. . . .