schuit

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UK/skɔɪt/

noun

A flat-bottomed Dutch river-boat; a barge.

OriginDutch schuit →
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Meanings

nounschuit (plural schuits)

plural schuits · alternative schuyt · alternative skoot · alternative skuyt

  1. A flat-bottomed Dutch river-boat; a barge.

    Peregrine […] next day embarked, with his companions, in the Skuyt, for Haarlem, where they dined, and in the evening arrived at the antient city of Leyden […].

    1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Dutchschuit
  2. Englishschuit

From Dutch schuit. Compare shout ("flat-bottomed boat"), scout (“swift sailing boat”).

More words from Dutch

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with schuit

Detroitexploitdroitdoitadroitquoitintroitdacoithoit
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Anagrams

Schitu
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APA

schuit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schuit

MLA

“schuit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schuit. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “schuit,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schuit.

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