PALM-SHAPED • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Palm-shaped

... slightly ashen tinge, and had an extraordinary form. At first it was like a trumpet, and then like a catan (which is a weapon peculiar to Japon, resembling the cutlass), with the edge toward the southwest; and at the end it appeared palm-shaped. The declination [78] of the southwestern end was twenty degrees south. At first its length was equal to the whole of the sign of Libra, with which it rose. Eight days afterward, the declination of the southwestern end was twenty-four degrees and thirty minutes south. At this time the head was ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVIII, 1617-1620 • Various

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