flyboat

flyboat
/fluy"boht'/, n.
a small, fast boat.
[1570-80; < D vlieboot, equiv. to Vlie (name of a channel along the North Sea island of Vlieland) + boot BOOT; vlie later altered by assoc. with FLY1]

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