flyboat

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large flat-bottomed coasting vessel, formerly found in Holland, Spain and Portugal. historical
    — 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
  2. 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 Ireland,UK,historical

词形变化

flyboats plural fly-boat alternative flieboat alternative

词源

Borrowed from Dutch vlieboot, but re-analysed as fly + boat.
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