trackscout

• trackschuyt, treckschuyt, trekschuit

From Dutch trekschuit, from trekken (“pull, draw, haul”) + schuit (“boat”).

trackscout (plural trackscouts)

1. Alternative form of trekschuit
   • 1914, John Bach McMaser, History of the People of the US‎, Reprint edition, Cosimo, published 2006, →ISBN, 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 …

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