Anglo-Indian. Also 8–9 budgero. [a. Hindī or Bengālī bajrā.] ‘A lumbering keelless barge, formerly much used by Europeans travelling on the Ganges’ (Col. Yule).
[c. 1570. trans. Cesare Federici, in Hakl., II. 358 (Y.). Their barkes be light and armed with oares … and they call these barkes Bazaras and Patuas [in Bengal].]
1727. A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., II. xxxiii. 12. In their Budgeroes, which is a convenient Boat, that goes swiftly with the Force of Oars.
1781. Hodges, 39 (Y.). The budgerows, which both sail and row.
1834. H. Caunter, Scenes in Ind., 249. Our papers … we happened luckily to have on board the budgerow.
