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)
- A horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the Netherlands.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 469:
- And thou, much plumper dame [...]: thee I call: of whom in a treckschuyte, in some Dutch canal, the fat Jufvrouw Gelt, impregnated by a jolly merchant of Amsterdam, was delivered [...].
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 69, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:
- [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 […] .
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 469:
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/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: trek‧schuit
Noun
trekschuit f or m (plural trekschuiten, diminutive trekschuitje n)
- trekschuit: a historical canal horse-drawn boat transporting passengers and goods.
See also
- trekvaart