flyboat

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  1. noun Any of various small, swift boats.

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  1. Alteration and partial translation of Dutch vlieboot : Vlie, a channel off the island of Vlieland in the northern Netherlands + boot, boat.

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  1. Early modern English also flieboat, flibote; cf. French flibote = Spanish flibote, filibote, German flieboot, from Dutch vlieboot, flyboat. The English term, like the others, is usually derived from the D., but the D. term does not appear in Kilian (1598), and the formation, which should rather be *vliegboot, is unusual; the D. may be from the English The English word, apparently referring to the swiftness of the boat, from fly, v., + boat, may be an accommodation of Icelandic fley, a kind of swift ship (only in poetry, but the comp. fley-skip, ‘fly-ship,’ opposed to langskip, ‘long ship,’ also in prose; a form *fleybātr = flyboat does not occur). For the supposed connection with filibuster, see that word.
 

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/ˈflaɪboʊt/
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