What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Trackscout vs Trekschuit - What's the difference?

trackscout | trekschuit | Alternative forms |

Trekschuit is a alternative form of trackscout.



As nouns the difference between trackscout and trekschuit

is that trackscout is alternative form of trekschuit A small shallow-water boat for ferrying goods or passengers on a canal, river, or coastal waters while trekschuit is a horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the Netherlands.

trackscout

English

Alternative forms

* trackschuyt * treckschuyt * trekschuit

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small shallow-water boat for ferrying goods or passengers on a canal, river, or coastal waters.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1914 , year_published=2006 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=John Bach McMaser , title=History of the People of the US , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Cosimo , isbn=781596052338 , page=586 , passage=… and send in plans for four track-scouts' … In these, they could coast from New Hampshire to Georgia … An occasional squall might now and then sink the '''trackscouts'''. … The ' trackscout business would soon become … }}

    References

    (Webster 1913)

    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 [...].
    ----