the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. See pram.
Word Usage
"The little praam takes the ground in the bay a few yards from the beach, and in the midst of a constellation of “jelly-fishes” spherical in form and varying in size."