bilander

Noun

1. A small two-masted merchant vessel, used near the coast or in canals, mostly in the Netherlands.
   • Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep / Along the coast, and land in view to keep? - 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition,...
   • 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 - March 1744, Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh...