trekschuit

English

Alternative forms

• trackschuyt, trackscout, treckschuyt, treckskuyt

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch trekschuit, from trekken (“pull”) + schuit (“boat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛkskɔɪt/

Noun

trekschuit (plural trekschuits)

1. A horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the Netherlands.
   • 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:

     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: […].

   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter LXIX, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 254:

     [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, […].

Dutch

Alternative forms

• treckschuit (obsolete)
• treckschuyt (obsolete)
• trekschuyt (obsolete)

Etymology

First attested in the 17th century. From trekken (“to pull”) +‎ schuit (“boat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛk.sxœy̯t/

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• Hyphenation: trek‧schuit

Noun

trekschuit f or m (plural trekschuiten, diminutive trekschuitje n)

1. trekschuit: a historical canal horse-drawn boat transporting passengers and goods

See also

• trekvaart