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skoot

skoot is the alternative form of schuit.

Meaning of schuit

Noun

schuit (plural schuits)

  1. A flat-bottomed Dutch river-boat; a barge.
    • Peregrine […] next day embarked, with his companions, in the Skuyt, for Haarlem, where they dined, and in the evening arrived at the antient city of Leyden […].1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

Forms of skoot

pluralskoots

Questions about skoot

What is skoot the alternative form of?
Skoot is the alternative form of schuit.

Words near skoot in the dictionary

  1. skoosh
  2. skooshed
  3. skooshes
  4. skooshing
  5. skooshy
  6. skoot
  7. skootch
  8. skootched
  9. skootches
  10. skootching
  11. skooter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skoot (page history and authors); schuit (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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