bilander
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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch bijlander, equivalent to by- + lander. See also belandre.
Pronunciation
Noun
bilander (plural bilanders)
- (historical) A small two-masted merchant vessel, used near the coast or in canals, mostly in the Netherlands.
- 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: Jacob Tonson , →OCLC:
- Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep / Along the coast, and land in view to keep?
- March 1744, Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany:
- it being fine weather , all the bilanders and fiſhing boats , that had returned after the first imbarkation, into the harbour, went out again with another body of troops
References
- “bilander”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.