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flyboat

[ flahy-boht ]

noun

  1. a small, fast boat.


flyboat

/ ˈflaɪˌbəʊt /

noun

  1. any small swift boat
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of flyboat1

1570–80; < Dutch vlieboot, equivalent to Vlie (name of a channel along the North Sea island of Vlieland) + boot boat; vlie later altered by association with fly 2
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Example Sentences

Later in the voyage Sydney's flyboat foundered; but he and all his soldiers were rescued.

Seest thou the flyboat that but late came to join our fleet, and knowest thou who it is upon it that twangs the viol every day?

The captain of the flyboat, seeing the skiff coming up and Lamme rowing like a demon, had a ladder dropped from the deck.

The 17th, the flyboat Liefde returned to the Manhathans with the Swedish prisoners.

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