On Saturday, the boatmen on the Cabite ferry brought in a Dutch lancha of large size, and with a mast, which was dragging its anchor about the bay.
The lancha had vanished round the stern, the ladder was triced up, and the open cargo gangway several feet above the brine.
Accordingly, when the lancha was loaded high with the warm yellow bales he clambered up on them and bade the crew get under way.
It showed a big cargo lancha lurching out, deep-loaded, through a fringe of tumbling surf with four men straining at the ponderous oars.
It therefore appeared probable that they purposed unloading the lancha before they came back for them, and he decided to climb up on the bale.
He knew it would be a minute or two yet before they got the big passenger lancha over, but the Estremedura's propeller was thrashing astern, and when she came back towards him he seized the boat-warp already lowered along her side.
I had to give the quartermaster orders to have our lancha ready, and he'll take any passengers straight across to her.
A cluster of barefooted men were with difficulty loading her big lancha beneath the mole with the barley-straw the row of camels, kneeling in the one straggling street behind him, had brought down.
The lancha was apparently going on, and it was evident that although the men must have heard the straw fall, they were not aware that he had gone with it.
Something had awakened in him he had not felt before, though he had run the Estremedura's lancha through the spouting surf, and had never been accounted a laggard in the strenuous English games.
Yet, as those who saw it felt, there was triumph in it, too, for while the rollers came seething in to hurl her back the lancha was clawing off the shore.
A lancha was a small vessel having no deck and but one mast, and propelled by sweeps.
A lancha was sent to the kingdom of Patani to see whether there was a Dutch factory there, as was usual.
The Spaniards sent a lancha manned by soldiers and an adjutant, to reconnoiter; but after spying carefully until they were quite near Malaca, no Dutch were discovered, and they returned to the galleons with that news.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lancha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
