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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various small, swift boats.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A large flat-bottomed Dutch vessel with a high stem, of a kind chiefly employed in the coasting-trade, having a burden of from 400 to 600 tons.
  2. n. A light, swift sail-boat.
  3. n. A long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat used for the transportation in canals and rivers of goods requiring to be carefully packed and kept dry. Also called swift-boat.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A large Dutch coasting vessel.
  2. n. A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Naut.) A large Dutch coasting vessel.
  2. n. A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.

Etymologies

  1. fly +‎ boat: compare Dutch vlieboot. (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration and partial translation of Dutch vlieboot : Vlie, a channel off the island of Vlieland in the northern Netherlands + boot, boat. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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