Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

flyboat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fly-boat
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large flat-bottomed coasting vessel, formerly found in Holland, Spain and Portugal.

noun

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

British usage

Example Sentences

"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"

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Dutch

Word Breakdown

Root: vlieboot

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

flyboats (plural) fly-boat (alternative) flieboat (alternative)

Questions

What does flyboat mean?: A large flat-bottomed coasting vessel, formerly found in Holland, Spain and Portugal.
Where does flyboat come from?: It is traced to Dutch.

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