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n. - A small merchant ship with two masts.

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Usage examples (11)
  • The bilander was a good sizable object, and not to hit her anywhere would be too bad.
  • “Well, mynheer, you have only to pay the difference, and the ketch will do; the bilander sails almost as fast.”
  • For a while the bilander seemed to mean to try it, for she carried on toward the central cruiser as if she had not seen one of them.
  • “I am sorry to be troublesome, Mynheer Van Dunck, but I can not say good-by without having your receipt in full for the old bilander.”
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