flyboat
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
Definition of flyboat
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(historical)A large flat-bottomed coasting vessel, formerly found in Holland, Spain and Portugal.
“August 14, 1595, Thomas Treffry, letter to Sir Robert Cecil a ship of Bristol was chased into this harbour by two Spanish fly-boats, and they report […] that there are five men of war, Spanish, in the road of Conquet”
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noun
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(historical)A large flat-bottomed coasting vessel, formerly found in Holland, Spain and Portugal.
“August 14, 1595, Thomas Treffry, letter to Sir Robert Cecil a ship of Bristol was chased into this harbour by two Spanish fly-boats, and they report […] that there are five men of war, Spanish, in the road of Conquet”
- (Ireland, UK, historical)A kind of (often horse-drawn) passenger boat formerly used on canals. Faster than other types of canal boats at the time, the horses would run along the towpath
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Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch vlieboot, but re-analysed as fly + boat.
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