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treckschuyt

treckschuyt is the alternative spelling 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 treckschuyt

pluraltreckschuyts

Origin of treckschuyt

Borrowed from Dutch trekschuit, from an obsolete spelling.

Questions about treckschuyt

What is treckschuyt the alternative spelling of?
Treckschuyt is the alternative spelling of trekschuit.

Words near treckschuyt in the dictionary

  1. trecked
  2. trecker
  3. treckers
  4. trecking
  5. trecks
  6. treckschuyt
  7. treckschuyts
  8. treckskuyt
  9. treckskuyts
  10. treculavirin
  11. Trecwn

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