Almadie

{ ||Al`ma*di"a (?), ||Al"ma*die (?), } n. [F. almadie (cf. Sp. & Pg. almadia), fr. Ar. alma'dīyah a raft, float.] (Naut.) (a) A bark canoe used by the Africans. (b) A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.