trekschuit
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Dutch trekschuit, from trekken (“pull”) + schuit (“boat”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittrekschuit (plural trekschuits)
- A horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the Netherlands.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, “An Invocation”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume V, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XIII, pages 2–3:
- And thou, much plumper Dame, […]. Thee, I call; of whom in a Trachtchugt in ſome Dutch Canal the fat Ufrow Gelt, impregnated by a jolly Merchant of Amſterdam, was delivered: […].
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter LXIX, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 254:
- [H]e ordered his ſervants to pack up ſome cloaths and linnen in a portmanteau; and in the morning embarked, with his governor, in the Treckſkuyt, for the Hague, […].
Dutch
editAlternative forms
edit- treckschuit (obsolete)
- treckschuyt (obsolete)
- trekschuyt (obsolete)
Etymology
editFirst attested in the 17th century. From trekken (“to pull”) + schuit (“boat”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittrekschuit f or m (plural trekschuiten, diminutive trekschuitje n)
- trekschuit: a historical canal horse-drawn boat transporting passengers and goods.
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