trekschuit
UK/ˈtɹɛkskɔɪt/
trekschuit noun: a horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the Netherlands.
Noun
trekschuit (plural trekschuits)
- 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
- [H]e ordered his ſervants to pack up ſome cloaths and linnen in a portmanteau; and in the morning embarked, with his governor, in the Treckſkuyt, for the Hague,[…].1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter LXIX, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 254
Forms of trekschuit
| plural | trekschuits |
|---|---|
| alternative form | trackschuyt |
| alternative form | trackscout |
| alternative form | treckschuyt |
| alternative form | treckskuyt |
Origin of trekschuit
Borrowed from Dutch trekschuit, from trekken (“pull”) + schuit (“boat”).
Questions about trekschuit
- What does trekschuit mean?
- Trekschuit means a horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the Netherlands.
- What part of speech is trekschuit?
- Trekschuit is a noun.
- How do you pronounce trekschuit?
- Trekschuit is pronounced /ˈtɹɛkskɔɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of trekschuit?
- The plural of trekschuit is trekschuits.
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