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‖ schuit
(skɔɪt, Du. sxœɪt)
Also 7 scuit, 9 schuyt.
[Du. schuit, earlier schuyt:—MDu. schûte, adopted in Eng. as scute, scoute, etc. (see scout n.). Cf. shout n.1]
A Dutch flat-bottomed river-boat.
1666Lond. Gaz. No. 28/2 There were seven or eight hundred Seamen sent from Rotterdam, with sixteen or twenty Scuits, and two Men of War. 1833Marryat P. Simple xxvii, He's built like a Dutch schuyt, great breadth of beam, and very square tuck. 1899Academy 18 Nov. 567/1 The Dutch eel schuyt is familiar to Londoners. |