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- noun Plural form of
bilander .
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Examples
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Boats used by the settlers varied in size from small flat-bottom boats to fairly large sailing vessels, and included such types as small rowboats, pinnaces, barks, bilanders, schooners, ketches, and sloops.
New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America J. Paul Hudson
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Why choose we, then, like bilanders, [97] to creep
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665
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The river of Etaples is dry every tide, and has many banks at its entrance, most of which are so shifting that they cannot be ex - actly described; besides the river will admit only some small bilanders, which pass up as far as Montreuil.
Le petit Neptune français; or, French coasting pilot, for the coast of Flanders, Channel, Bay of ... Neptune 1793
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