Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large flat-bottomed Dutch vessel with a high stem, of a kind chiefly employed in the coasting-trade, having a burden of from 400 to 600 tons.
- noun A light, swift sail-boat.
- noun A long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat used for the transportation in canals and rivers of goods requiring to be carefully packed and kept dry. Also called
swift-boat .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A large Dutch coasting vessel.
- noun A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large
Dutch coasting vessel . - noun A kind of
passenger boat formerly used oncanals .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On July 20, the English sailed up to Quebec in three vessels, a flyboat and two pinnaces, with twenty-two guns and 150 men.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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A felibote (Spanish) or flibot (French) or “flyboat,” in one of its early meanings, was, as defined by R. M. Nance, “an enlarged, ship-rigged barge, contrived to carry as much merchandise as possible with the smallest possible crew.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Champlain mentioned a third type of ocean-going vessel, which he called a flibot, a flyboat.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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On July 20, the English sailed up to Quebec in three vessels, a flyboat and two pinnaces, with twenty-two guns and 150 men.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Champlain mentioned a third type of ocean-going vessel, which he called a flibot, a flyboat.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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A felibote (Spanish) or flibot (French) or “flyboat,” in one of its early meanings, was, as defined by R. M. Nance, “an enlarged, ship-rigged barge, contrived to carry as much merchandise as possible with the smallest possible crew.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Champlain went aboard the flyboat and talked with Louis Kirke about his Indian girls.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Champlain went aboard the flyboat and talked with Louis Kirke about his Indian girls.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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"Do you think yon Outsider flyboat may attack us?"
Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966
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Swan, a flyboat of 50 tons, Captain John Chester; and the
Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main Gordon Browne 1867
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