goelette
/ɡəˈlɛt/ /ɡəʊɪˈlɛt/(also goélette)
noun
1A light schooner-rigged sailing boat used chiefly in North America, typically broad-beamed with two masts. Compare gulet. Now historical and rare.
2 Canadian. A type of boat, originally a small schooner, in later use a flat-bottomed motor-driven vessel, used for carrying freight on the St Lawrence River in Quebec. Now chiefly historical.
Origin
Mid 18th century. From French goélette schooner, tern, probably alteration (with suffix substitution: see -ette) of goéland seabird, gull from Breton goelan, gwelan (now gouelan) gull.
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