trackscout

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A form of trekschuit — A horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the Netherlands.

OriginDutch trekschuit →
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Meanings

nountrackscout (plural trackscouts)

plural trackscouts · alternative trackschuyt · alternative treckschuyt · alternative trekschuit

  1. alternativeAlternative form of trekschuit.

    … and send in plans for four track-scouts … In these, they could coast from New Hampshire to Georgia … An occasional squall might now and then sink the trackscouts. … The trackscout business would soon become …

    1914, John Bach McMaser, History of the People of the US, Reprint edition, Cosimo, published 2006, →ISBN, page 586

Origin

  1. Dutchtrekschuit
  2. Englishtrackscout

From Dutch trekschuit, from trekken (“pull, draw, haul”) + schuit (“boat”).

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APA

trackscout. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trackscout

MLA

“trackscout.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trackscout. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trackscout,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trackscout.

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