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Riverboat vs Trekschuit - What's the difference?

riverboat | trekschuit |

As nouns the difference between riverboat and trekschuit

is that riverboat is a watercraft designed for operating on rivers while trekschuit is a horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the netherlands.

riverboat

English

(wikipedia riverboat)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A watercraft designed for operating on rivers.

    • trekschuit

    English

    (wikipedia trekschuit)

    Alternative forms

    * trackscout * treckschuyt

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the Netherlands.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 469:
    • And thou, much plumper dame [...]: thee I call: of whom in a treckschuyte , in some Dutch canal, the fat Jufvrouw Gelt, impregnated by a jolly merchant of Amsterdam, was delivered [...].
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