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goelette
[< Cdn F < F goélette schooner]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a flat-bottomed, motor-driven vessel built mainly on the Ile aux Coudres and used for carrying freight on the St. Lawrence River and occasionally on the Lower Lakes.
See: caboteur(def. 1)
Quotations
1958
Goelettes mostly carry pulpwood and sometimes sail as far as the Great Lakes.
1958
"There is something for everyone here, a sense of music . . . and some new words to think about--goelette, bugalet rig, arquebuses-a-croc, tillac, toise and carroy."
1959
And the more than 500 people who sail the goelettes . . . see these ports and those of the Great Lakes.
1959
Being partly a lower St. Lawrence River man I would like to compliment John Little on his cover (April 25). . . . Unfortunately the spelling of the name of the type of boat is incorrect. This should be goelette not geolette.
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