schuyt

At a large town we got on board a kind of passage-boat, crowded with people; it had neither sails nor oars, and those were not the days of steam-vessels; it was a treck-schuyt, and was drawn by horses.

Lavengro 2004

Two more similar canoes — “dugouts,” as they were technically termed — were found about the same time in drain-cutting, in the same vicinity; and one of these was presented to the British Museum. {115b} The Fen men used to call their boats “shouts,” from the Dutch “schuyt,” a wherry.

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

At a large town we got on board a kind of passage - boat, crowded with people; it had neither sails nor oars, and those were not the days of steam-vessels; it was a treck-schuyt, and was drawn by horses.

Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

At a large town we got on board a kind of passage - boat, crowded with people; it had neither sails nor oars, and those were not the days of steam-vessels; it was in a treck-schuyt, and was drawn by horses.

Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

At a large town we got on board a kind of passage-boat, crowded with people; it had neither sails nor oars, and those were not the days of steam-vessels; it was a treck-schuyt, and was drawn by horses.

Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

"Oh, you are not, a'n't you?" said Murphy, seizing me by one of my ears, which he pulled so unmercifully that he altered the shape of it very considerably, making it something like the lee-board of a Dutch schuyt.

Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer Frederick Marryat 1820

"Oh, you are not, a'n't you?" said Murphy, seizing me by one of my ears, which he pulled so unmercifully that he altered the shape of it very considerably, making it something like the leeboard of a Dutch schuyt.

Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer Frederick Marryat 1820

He's built like a Dutch schuyt, great breadth of beam, and very square tuck.

Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 Frederick Marryat 1820

He landed at Ostend, and the next day found himself in the track-schuyt that is towed by horses, from Bruges to

Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820

During our passage in the track-schuyt I had an evidence to the contrary, for as we glided noiselessly and almost imperceptibly along, a lady told me that she infinitely preferred the three-horse power of the schuyt to the hundred-horse power of the steam-packet.

Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820