Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
trekschuit .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.
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- noun A
covered boat forgoods andpassengers , used on theDutch andFlemish canals .
Etymologies
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Examples
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American, in their country, can find a diversion well worth considering by setting aside a few days from the usual routine, and entering the life of these good folk, far enough to take a trip or two in a treckschuyt on the canals that form such an important factor of their transportation system.
My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears
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If the American traveler can make a treckschuyt voyage in the right spirit, he can have a pleasurable and valuable experience, and he will be thankful for the suggestion here given.
My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears
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From here, take a treckschuyt ride to Bruges, and another to Ghent and anywhere else, as fancy dictates.
My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears
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The one thing to be thought of is the going from one place to another by treckschuyt.
My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears
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Landing at Antwerp, for example, one could not do better than to take a treckschuyt excursion at once, before the bloom of anticipation has been rubbed off by the friction of much sight-seeing.
My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears
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_treckschuyt_, -- have wrought their patient tasks in the dim caverns of the Indian Archipelago, -- have yielded to the little builders under water means and implements to rear their towering altar, dwelling, monument.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various
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