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plural Sumatras
(Singapore, formerly) A squall or violent rainstorm coming from the south. quotations examples
In the Straits of Malacca one encounters a squall every night; there they are known by the name of Sumatras, crossing as they do from the island bearing that name.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 119
A chicken of a breed native to the island of Sumatra, formerly used in cock-fighting and now mainly kept for exhibition. examples