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plural flyboats
A large flat-bottomed Dutch coasting vessel. quotations examples
a ship of Bristol was chased into this harbour by two Spanish fly-boats, and they report […] that there are five men of war, Spanish, in the road of Conquet
August 14, 1595, Thomas Treffry, letter to Sir Robert Cecil
A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals. examples