flyboat

== English == === Alternative forms === fly-boat === Etymology === Borrowed from Dutch vlieboot, but re-analysed as fly +‎ boat. === Noun === flyboat (plural flyboats) A large flat-bottomed Dutch coasting vessel. August 14, 1595, Thomas Treffry, letter to Sir Robert Cecil 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 A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.