Word: lauch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from the grip in Philadelphia, and has been ordered by his physician, to drop all business cares for a week or two, and remain out of doors. Consequently, it is probable that, notwithstanding his persistent assurances of its impossibility, Mr. Cook will be in the bow of the Yale lauch, during the next fortnight...
Thomas Stevens, of bicycling fame, has the first chapter of "Across Europe in a Petroleum Launch. From the German Ocean to the Black Sea." It is the description of a trip in a naptha lauch, up the Elbe, across to the Danube, and down to the Black Sea. The syle is very bright and vivid, and the article makes delightful reading, like nearly all of Stevens' work...