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bilander|ˈbɪləndə(r), ˈbaɪləndə(r)|
Also 7 billander, 7–9 bylander, 8 belande, belandre, billinder.
[ad. Du. bijlander ‘a vessel with one large mast, sailing on the coast,’ ‘a lighter,’ f. Du. bij by + land land. Adapted in Fr. as bélandre.]
A two-masted merchant vessel, a kind of hoy, distinguished by the trapezoidal shape of the mainsail; used in Holland for coast and canal traffic.
1656(title), The Opening of Rivers for Navigation..a Mediterranean Passage by Water for Billanders of thirty tun, between Bristol and London. 1666Lond. Gaz. No. 37/4 Here are three small Billanders from Bruges in Flanders. 1676Temple Let. Wks. 1731 II. 351 Their baggage is already laden in a By-lander in this Canal. 1687Dryden Hind & P. i. 128 Like bilanders to creep Along the coast. 1731Bailey, Belande, belandre. 1755Mem. Capt. P. Drake II. iii. 62, I agreed for a Billinder, which is a kind of Dutch Vessel. 1833Southey Naval Hist. Eng. IV. 295 In little boats and bylanders to steal along the shore by night. |