Meanings
plural trekschuits · alternative trackschuyt · alternative trackscout · alternative treckschuyt · alternative treckskuyt
- A horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the Netherlands.
[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,[…].
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter LXIX, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 2541 more example
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:[…].
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
Origin
- Dutchtrekschuit
- Englishtrekschuit
Borrowed from Dutch trekschuit, from trekken (“pull”) + schuit (“boat”).
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