单词 | trekschuit |
释义 | trekschuitn. A canal- or river-boat drawn by horses, carrying passengers and goods, as in common use in Holland; a track-boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > canal boat trekschuit1696 canal boat1770 narrowboat1836 fly-boat1841 monkey boat1885 canaller1887 1696 in W. Mure Select. Family Papers Caldwell (1854) I. 174 I went to Bruxelles in a Draggescutte. 1696 in W. Mure Select. Family Papers Caldwell (1854) I. 176 I went in the Trackscoute fra yre to Bruges. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 130. ¶4 As the Trekschuyt, or Hackney-boat, which carries Passengers from Leiden to Amsterdam, was putting off [etc.]. 1737 G. Smith Curious Relations I. i. 99 We took our Lodgings at the first Inn..where the Treckscutes landed. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) ii. 56 There is no track-scoot goes from Helveot. 1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) III. 278 We should then travel with as much Safety, Certainty, and Dispatch, as in the Trachtscoots in Holland and Flanders. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Track-scout [1780 Tract-scout], a vessel employed to carry goods or passengers up and down the rivers or canals in Holland. 1772 Tour Holland, etc. 26 On Monday evening we went in the treckschuyte to Leyden. 1783 J. Wesley Jrnl. 16 June We set out in a track~skuit for the Hague. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 335 Covered boats, called treckscuits, which are dragged along the canals by horses. 1816 R. Southey Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo i. 26 Beside the busy wharf the Trekschuit rides. 1846 W. M. Thackeray Notes Journey Cornhill to Cairo xv. 251 Harmlessly as if we had been in a Dutch trackschuyt. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxii. 262 I..arranged..to send on my chests by track-scoot to an address I had in Leyden. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 3/2 It is a change from the tearing of motor-cars to note the slow progress of the trekschuit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1696 |
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