schuit
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /skɔɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔɪt
Noun
schuit (plural schuits)
- A flat-bottomed Dutch river-boat; a barge.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- Peregrine […] next day embarked, with his companions, in the Skuyt, for Haarlem, where they dined, and in the evening arrived at the antient city of Leyden […] .
Anagrams
Dutch
Alternative forms
- schuyt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch schute, from Old Dutch skūta. Cognate with Middle Low German schûte (“a type of boat or light ship”). Perhaps tied to Proto-Germanic *skeutaz (“quick”), thus making it related to Old Norse skúta (“a small craft or cutter”), Old Norse skjótr (“quick”), Old English sċēot (“quick, ready”), Dutch schieten (“to shoot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sxœy̯t/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: schuit
- Rhymes: -œy̯t
Noun
Derived terms
- baggerschuit
- bomschuit
- kaagschuit
- modderschuit
- roeischuit
- schuitengat
- schuitenvoerder
- schuitjevaren
- schuitvormig
- trekschuit
- turfschuit
- vissersschuit
- zuipschuit
Middle English
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