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Trackscout

Track′scout

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Noun.

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trackscout

trackscout

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Noun

trackscout (plural trackscouts)

  1. Alternative form of trekschuit A small shallow-water boat for ferrying goods or passengers on a canal, river, or coastal waters.
    • 1914, John Bach McMaser, History of the People of the US, Reprint edition, Cosimo, published 2006, ISBN 781596052338, page 586:
      … 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 …

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