Ma*soo"la boat` (?). A kind of boat used on the coast of Madras, India.
The planks are sewed together with strands of coir which cross over a
wadding of the same material, so that the shock on taking the beach
through surf is much reduced. [Written also masula, masulah, etc.]
||Ma*so"ra (?), n. [NHeb. msrh tradition.] A Jewish critical work on
||the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several learned rabbis
||of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries.
||[Written also Masorah, Massora, and Massorah.]