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bylander

bylander is the obsolete form of bilander.

Meaning of bilander

Noun

bilander (plural bilanders)

  1. (historical) A small two-masted merchant vessel, used near the coast or in canals, mostly in the Netherlands.
    • Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep / Along the coast, and land in view to keep?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

Forms of bylander

pluralbylanders

Questions about bylander

What is bylander the obsolete form of?
Bylander is the obsolete form of bilander.

Words near bylander in the dictionary

  1. Bykowski
  2. Bykowskis
  3. byland
  4. Byland Abbey
  5. Byland with Wass
  6. bylander
  7. bylanders
  8. bylands
  9. bylane
  10. bylanes
  11. bylaw

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bylander (page history and authors); bilander (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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