flyboat

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FLYBOAT, noun A large flat-bottomed Dutch vessel, whose burden is from 600 to 1200 tons, with a stern remarkably high, resembling a Gothic turret, and very broad buttocks below.
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