flyboat

[ flahy-boht ]

noun

1. a small, fast boat.

flyboat

/ ˈflaɪˌbəʊt /

noun

1. any small swift boat

Word History and Origins

Origin of flyboat¹

1570–80; < Dutch vlieboot, equivalent to Vlie (name of a channel along the North Sea island of Vlieland) + boot boat; vlie later altered by association with fly ²

Example Sentences

Later in the voyage Sydney's flyboat foundered; but he and all his soldiers were rescued.

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Seest thou the flyboat that but late came to join our fleet, and knowest thou who it is upon it that twangs the viol every day?

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The captain of the flyboat, seeing the skiff coming up and Lamme rowing like a demon, had a ladder dropped from the deck.

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The 17th, the flyboat Liefde returned to the Manhathans with the Swedish prisoners.

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