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Definition of Flyboat
1. n. A large Dutch coasting vessel.
Definition of Flyboat
1. Noun. A large Dutch coasting vessel. ¹
2. Noun. A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flyboat
1. a small, fast boat [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flyboat
Literary usage of Flyboat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"Greenwich hath long since had orders to convoy the Fortune flyboat bound with
stores to Portsmouth. Has acquainted the lords with their readiness to answer ..."
2. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library at by Pepys Library, Samuel Pepys, Great Britain Admiralty. Archives (1904)
"Greenwich hath long since had orders to convoy the Fortune flyboat bound with
stores to Portsmouth. Has acquainted the lords with their readiness to answer ..."
3. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1905)
"83; Sir Amyas de Preston at (1595) 223; Sir Anthony Sherley at (1596) 267;
Dartmouth flyboat bound for ..."
4. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1858)
"Furthermore, James Coffin in particular declares that he himself was on board
the flyboat after she had been taken by said Dudson, and that he had heard ..."
5. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1898)
"... and with it the flyboat. On the 29th, a Shallop started for 3 rivers, and
father dequen went on board. On the 3Oth, the Montreal bark sailed, ..."
6. State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588 by John Knox Laughton, Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"The flyboat is of Calais, the hoy of Dort. The flyboat was very lately in Spain.
They are laden with ai,ooo quarters of wheat of the best. ..."
7. An Historical Digest of the Provincial Press: Being a Collation of All Items by Lyman Horace Weeks, Edwin Monroe Bacon (1911)
"Lawrence's Prize to Rhode- Island, say, That in July they came from Rachel, under
the Convoy of a flyboat of 700 Tons, between 50 and 60 Guns, ..."
8. Charles Townshend: Wit and Statesman by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1866)
"(The Townshend flyboat! Could there be a better name for the brilliant but ...
It then goes on :) " The Townshend flyboat was with some difficulty brought ..."
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