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ˈtrack-boat
[f. track- vb.-stem + boat n.]
A boat which is tracked or towed; a tow-boat. (Originally Sc., rendering Du. trek-schuit.)
1632Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 243/1 Also thair Trakboats, boats, crears, shippes more or lesse..Sall not be arrested. 1795J. Phillips Hist. Inland Navig. 320 The public opening of the..navigation from sea to sea was made by the sailing of a track-barge... In the course of the voyage..the track-boat passed along..the great aqueduct over the river Kelvin. 1808–18Jamieson, Track-boat, a boat used on a canal. 1824in Sidney Life R. Hill (1834) 308 Mr. Hill went to Glasgow by the track boat, embarking at Grangemouth. 1908Westm. Gaz. 27 Oct. 6/3 The journey was made by P. and O. steamer to Alexandria (sixteen days), thence in a track boat towed by tugs or horses to Atfeh (forty-eight miles along the Mahmoudieh Canal), thence by Nile steamer 120 miles to Boulac. |