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goelette, n.
Brit. |gəˈlɛt|, |gəʊɪˈlɛt|, U.S. |gəˈlɛt|, |goʊəˈlɛt|
Forms: 17–18 goëlette, 17– goelette, 18 goelëtte, 18– goélette
[‹ French goélette schooner (1740, in the 18th cent. also as goulette), tern (1767 as goislette), probably alteration (with suffix substitution: see -ette -et suffix1) of goéland seabird, gull > n.1 Compare Occitan goulette, Spanish goleta (1748), Italian goletta (1793).]
1. A light schooner-rigged sailing boat used chiefly in North America, typically broad-beamed with two masts. Cf. gulet n. Now hist. and rare.
1760tr. T. Pichon Genuine Lett. & Mem. Islands Cape Breton, & St. John xiv. 221 They likewise sell to our merchants a kind of boats, called goelettes. 1840Times 28 Oct. 5/6 This will make them 11 line-of-battle ships, one steamer, and the Admiral's tender, the goelette la Mésange. 1851J. C. Pitrat Americans warned of Jesuitism 19, I took passage on a goelëtte, sailing to St. Thomas (a Danish colony). 1873New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) July 540 His companion..had parted from him in the goelette (or schooner) Felicidad. 1993H. Doblin tr. J. F. von Hille Amer. Revol. 41 The large baggage was taken to Trois-Rivières in goelettes.
2. Canad. A type of boat, originally a small schooner (cf. sense 1), in later use a flat-bottomed motor-driven vessel, used for carrying freight on the St Lawrence River in Quebec. Now chiefly hist.
1948Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 32 231 We see the villages of Petite Rivière St-François engaged in building..a little goélette, a small schooner for the river trade on the St. Lawrence. 1958Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 22 Mar. 3/1 Goelettes mostly carry pulpwood and sometimes sail as far as the Great Lakes. 1994Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 13 Aug. h1 An old goelette, one of the ships that carried lumber up and down the St. Lawrence, lies here. |