Usually means: Small, flat-bottomed Asian wooden boats.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (sampan)

noun:  (chiefly historical) A Chinese flat-bottomed wooden boat propelled by two oars.
noun:  (India, chiefly historical) Alternative form of jampan. [(India, chiefly historical) Synonym of dandy or tonjon, a kind of open sedan chair, particularly one with its main pole suspended from smaller poles borne on the shoulders of two pairs of porters.]
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