schuyts

It was good fun enough navigating the estuary — the tides and banks there are appalling — but farther inland it was a wretched business, nothing but paying lock-dues, bumping against schuyts, and towing down stinking canals.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

Etaples, 954 transports and 1339 armed vessels -- gun-brigs, schooners, luggers, schuyts and prames; and all these light vessels lay snug in their harbours, protected by shoals and sandbanks which our heavier ships of war, by reason of their draught, could not approach.

The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Handelskade; cold, stone-faced quays, with the snow-sprinkled ground and the hard, frozen water of the canal, in which were set ships one behind another with their frosty mooring-ropes hanging slack and their decks idle and deserted, because, as the master stevedore (a gentle, pale person, with a few golden hairs on his chin and a reddened nose) informed me, their cargoes were frozen-in up-country on barges and schuyts.

The Mirror of the Sea Joseph Conrad 1890

This hill, perforated by numerous tunnels, with its stir of life, resembles a vast beehive; and the airy scaffolding of the schuyts for delivering the rock surround it as with the tracery of some huge spider's web.

The Washoe Mining Region 1862

My master has the town business and his own business to attend to: he can't well get through it all: besides, now is a busy time, the schuyts are bringing up the cargo of a vessel from a far voyage, and Mynheer

Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend Frederick Marryat 1820

Merchandise, everything was consumed, and part of the building had fallen into the canal and choked it up, while fifteen schuyts, waiting to be discharged of their cargoes, had been obliged to retreat from the fury of the flames, the phlegmatic skippers looking on with their pipes in their mouths, and their hands in their wide breeches-pockets.

Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend Frederick Marryat 1820