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fly-boat|ˈflaɪbəʊt|
Forms: 6 flie-bote, flee-boate, flibote, 7 fly(e)boate(e, 7– fly-boat.
[app. ad. Du. vlieboot, originally denoting one of the small boats used on the Vlie or channel leading out of the Zuyder Zee, afterwards applied in ridicule to the small vessels used against the Spaniards by the Gueux de mer (1572); the word has passed into several European langs.: F. flibot, Sp. flibote, Ger. flieboot. But in Eng. it was very early associated with fly v.1, and this is prob. the source of sense 4. Sense 3, belonging esp. to Shetland, may be a distinct word, representing ON. fley; cf. ONorthumb. flœ́ge, perh. adopted from ON.]
†1. A fast-sailing vessel used chiefly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries:
a. for rapid transport of goods, etc., esp. in the coasting trade; Obs. exc. spec. a Dutch flat-bottomed boat; = flight 12 a.
1577Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 33 Our Fisher-boat his sayl-yard and sayl was entangled on the Maynyard of the Fly-boat. 1588Wills Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1860) II. 182 Paid to the fliebote, for freight of cxxx last of rye. 1698Froger Voy. 140 A small Fly-boat of forty Tunn..laden with Tobacco, Bacon, and Meal for Barbadoes. 1733P. Lindsay Interest Scot. 133 Our merchants might build..large Hag⁓boats and Fly-boats from 3 to 600 Tons, for the bulky trade. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1776) Fly-boat, or Flight, a large flat-bottom'd Dutch vessel, whose burthen is generally from four to six hundred tons.
fig.1602Marston Ant. & Mel. i. v, Here's such a companie of flibotes, hulling about this galleasse of greatnesse, that there's no boarding him. 1664J. Wilson Cheats iv. iv. Dram. Wks. (1874) 79 She's [landlady] a pretty fly-boat; two men won't sink her!
†b. for warlike purposes, voyages of discovery, etc.; a kind of frigate. Obs. exc. Hist.
1590Nashe Pasquil's Apol. 11 He was built but for a Flie-boate, to take and leaue, when the skyrmish is too hote for him to tarrie. 1673Lond. Gaz. No. 758/4 This Caper is a Flyboat of two tire of Guns, carrying in all, as we suppose, 32. 1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 539 The Flushingers..put a number of Fly-boats to sea and seized all ships coming from Spain. 1868St. John Life Raleigh I. 257.
†2. A small boat, esp. a ship's boat. Obs.
1598Florio, Fusta, a pinace or Fliebote. 1688Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 473 Some of our ships, since the passing by the Dutch fleet, have pickt up a small fly boat or two belonging to them. 1820Scott Monast. xxix, While the humble fly-boat carries to shore those friends.
†3. A fishing boat used in Shetland, a buss. Obs.
1614T. Gentleman Eng. Way to Wealth in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 239 Fly-boats..ride at anchor all the season at Shetland. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 24 Another fleete of Fisher-men (called Flyboats). 1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 242 plate, Herring Buss or Fly Boat.
4. a. A swift passage boat used on canals. b. See quot. 1893.
1841S. C. Hall Ireland (1843) III. 275 Voyaging part of the way in one of the ‘Fly-boats’. 1841–56S. C. Brees Gloss. Civ. Engin. s.v. Canal, Slow boats 2½ miles per hour..Fly boats 4 miles. 1893Labour Commission Gloss. s.v. Boats, Fly-Boats..barges of unusual length and of a narrow construction, drawing a very small amount of water.
5. Comb., as fly-boat-built adj.
1688Clayton Virginia i. in Phil. Trans. XVII. 782 We Sail'd in the Ship Judith..'twas Fly-boat built, about 200 or 250 Tuns. |