trekschuit
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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch trekschuit, from trekken (“pull”) + schuit (“boat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
trekschuit (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 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
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Etymology
First attested in the 17th century. From trekken (“to pull”) + schuit (“boat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
trekschuit f or m (plural trekschuiten, diminutive trekschuitje n)
- trekschuit: a historical canal horse-drawn boat transporting passengers and goods