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flyboat
[ flahy-boht ]
noun
- a small, fast boat.
flyboat
/ ˈflaɪˌbəʊt /
noun
- any small swift boat
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
It has been erroneously traced to the Dutch word flyboat; but the Jesuit traveller, Charlevoix, asserts that, in fact, this species of craft derived its title from being first used by the Flibustiers, and not from its swiftness.
Some authors have given a derivation to the name Flibustier from the word Flyboat, because, say they, the French hunters in Hispaniola bought vessels of the Dutch, called Flyboats, to cruise upon the Spaniards.
First, the word flyboat, is only an English translation of the Dutch word fluyt, which is the proper denomination of the vessel intended by it.
Later in the voyage Sydney's flyboat foundered; but he and all his soldiers were rescued.
The first the Gouernour shipped himselfe in a ship called the Monkie, which at that time was ready to put to sea from Dingen for England, leauing the Flyboat and all his companie in Ireland.
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