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Wordbook); ad. M.Du. schûte; a ‘boat called skoute’, apparently Flemish, is mentioned
in the Close Rolls, 20 Edw. II.
Keel (1421, keeler, however, as early as 1322), a flat-bottomed vessel, especially of
the kind used on the Tyne and Wear for the loading of colliers, a lighter; the name is or
has been in local use on the east coast of England from the Tyne to the Norfolk
Broads; apparently ad. M.Du. kiel (MLG. kêl), ship, boat.
Pram, Praam (1390-1 in the L. context of E. Derby's Exped., in an Eng. context not till
1634), a flat-bottomed boat, a lighter used especially in the Baltic and Netherlands for
shipping cargo; ad. M.Du. praem, prame (Du. praam), or MLG. and LG. prâm, prame.
Pink (1471), a sailing-vessel, originally one of small size used for coasting and fishing;
apparently ad. M.Du. pincke, pinke, the name of a small sea-going ship, also a fishingboat (in Kilian pinck, Du. pink, MLG. and LG. pinke). A compound is Sword-pink
(1616), a pink provided with lee-boards; from Du. zwaard (Kilian, sweerd), a lee-board.
Lighter (1487), a boat, usually a flat-bottomed barge used in unloading ships; ad. Du.
lichter, of equivalent formation to the possible Eng. origin from vb. light and -er. Hoy
(1495, Paston Letters), a small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop and employed in
carrying passengers and goods, especially short distances on the sea-coast;
apparently ad. M.Du. hoei, plural hoeyen, variant of hoede, heude (Du. heu, older Du.
heude).
Many names of ships and boats are borrowed in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Yacht (1557), a light fast-sailing ship; ad. e.mod.Du. jaght(e) (now jacht), used for
jaght-schip, ƗB