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Meaning of flyboat | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. A large flat-bottomed Dutch coasting vessel.
  2. A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.

Examples

“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”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

flybook flyboy flybridge flyby flyby anomaly Flycatcher

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