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goelette [< Cdn F < F goélette schooner] 
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 also: caboteur (def. 1)
- 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 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.
- 1959 And the more than 500 people who sail the goelettes . . . see these ports and those of the Great Lakes.
- 1958 Goelettes mostly carry pulpwood and sometimes sail as far as the Great Lakes.