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trackscout

trackscout is the alternative form of trekschuit.

Meaning of trekschuit

Noun

trekschuit (plural trekschuits)

  1. A horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the Netherlands.
    • 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:[…].1749, Henry Fielding, “An Invocation”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume V, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XIII, pages 2–3

Forms of trackscout

pluraltrackscouts
alternative formtrackschuyt
alternative formtreckschuyt
alternative formtrekschuit

Origin of trackscout

From Dutch trekschuit, from trekken (“pull, draw, haul”) + schuit (“boat”).

Questions about trackscout

What is trackscout the alternative form of?
Trackscout is the alternative form of trekschuit.

Words near trackscout in the dictionary

  1. tracks and traces
  2. tracks down
  3. tracks with
  4. trackschuyt
  5. trackschuyts
  6. trackscout
  7. trackscouts
  8. trackshoe
  9. trackshoes
  10. trackside
  11. tracksides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trackscout (page history and authors); trekschuit (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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