flyboat

Etymology

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

noun

  1. A large flat-bottomed Dutch coasting vessel.
    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 passenger boat formerly used on canals.

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