bilander

billander, bylander

Borrowed from Dutch bijlander, equivalent to by- +‎ lander. See also belandre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪləndɚ/

bilander (plural bilanders)

1. (historical) A small two-masted merchant vessel, used near the coast or in canals, mostly in the Netherlands.
   • 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

     Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep / Along the coast, and land in view to keep?

   • March 1744, Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany:

     it being fine weather, all the bilanders and fiſhing boats, that had returned after the first imbarkation, into the harbour, went out again with another body of troops

• “bilander”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.