Fly"boat` (?), n. [Fly + boat: cf. D. vlieboot.]

1. Naut.

A large Dutch coasting vessel.

Captain George Weymouth made a voyage of discovery to the northwest with two flyboats. Purchas.

2.

A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.

 

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