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flyboats

flyboats is the plural of flyboat.

Meaning of flyboat

Noun

flyboat (plural flyboats)

  1. (historical) A large flat-bottomed coasting vessel, formerly found in Holland, Spain and Portugal.
    • 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
  2. (Ireland, UK, historical) 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

Questions about flyboats

What is flyboats the plural of?
Flyboats is the plural of flyboat.

Words near flyboats in the dictionary

  1. flyblowing
  2. flyblown
  3. flyblows
  4. flyboarding
  5. flyboat
  6. flyboats
  7. flybook
  8. flybooks
  9. flyboy
  10. flyboys
  11. flybridge

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