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‖ trekschuit, treck-
(ˈtrɛkskɔɪt, ‖ -sxœyt)
Forms: α. 7 draggescutte; 7–9 track-, 7–8 -scoute, 8 -skuit, 8 (9) -scoot, 8–9 -s(c)huyt, (8 trachtscoot, tract-scout); β. 8–9 treck-, 8 -schuyte, -scuit, -scoit, -scute, -scoot, 8–9 -schuit, 9 -schuyt, -shwytt, -shut, 8 trekschuyt, 9 trekschuit. (Cf. forms of schuit, scout n.3, shout n.1)
[Du. trekschuit, formerly -schuyt, f. trek n. or trek- vb.-stem of trekken to draw, pull, tug + schuit, MDu. schûte = MLG., LG. schûte boat, barge:—OTeut. *skûtô, ME. schûte, ON. skúta: see schuit and shout n.1]
A canal- or river-boat drawn by horses, carrying passengers and goods, as in common use in Holland; a track-boat.
1696Caldwell Papers (Maitl. Cl.) I. 174, 13 June. I went to Bruxelles in a Draggescutte. Ibid. 176 July 1st. I went in the Trackscoute fra yre to Bruges. 1711Addison Spect. No. 130 ⁋4 As the Trekschuyt, or Hackney-boat, which carries Passengers from Leyden to Amsterdam, was putting off [etc.]. 1737G. Smith Curious Relat. I. i. 99 We took our Lodgings at the first Inn..where the Treckscutes landed. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Cl.) 131 There is no track-scoot goes from Helvest. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. III. 278 We should then travel with as much Safety, Certainty, and Dispatch, as in the Trachtscoots in Holland and Flanders. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Tract-scout, a vessel employed to carry goods or passengers up and down the rivers or canals. 1772Tour Holland, etc. 26 On Monday evening we went in the treckschuyte to Leyden. 1783Wesley Jrnl. 16 June, We set out in a track⁓skuit for the Hague. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 335 Covered boats, called treckscuits, which are dragged along the canals by horses. 1816Southey Poet's Pilgr. i. 26 Beside the busy wharf the Trekschuit rides. 1846Thackeray Cornhill to Cairo xv, Harmlessly as if we had been in a Dutch trackschuyt. 1893Stevenson Catriona xxii. 262, I..arranged..to send on my chests by track-scoot to an address I had in Leyden. 1902Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 3/2 It is a change from the tearing of motor-cars to note the slow progress of the trekschuit. |