flyboat.
A large flat-bottomed coasting vessel, formerly found in Holland, Spain and Portugal.
Meaning & usage
A large flat-bottomed coasting vessel, formerly found in Holland, Spain and Portugal.
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
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Dutch vlieboot, but re-analysed as fly + boat.
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