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Bateau   Listen
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Bateau  n.  (pl. bateaux)  (Written also, but less properly, batteau)  A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers.
Bateau bridge, a floating bridge supported by bateaux.






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"Bateau" Quotes from Famous Books



... a bateau full of voyageurs, and the dark echo, and that vild-cat must be astonish. When you not care what become of you, and your head is light and your heart like a stone on the beach, you not mind vild-cats, but sing ...
— The Skeleton On Round Island - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... flattop[coll.], nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully [Nfld.], bateau battery[Can.], broadhorn[obs3], dory, droger[obs3], drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot[obs3]; shallop[obs3], gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble[obs3], punt, cog, kedge, lerret[obs3]; eight oar, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... he said to Nick, a little resentfully. "I who speak to you say that there is four foot on each side of ze bateau. Too much tafia, a little too much excite—" and he made a gesture with his hand expressive of total destruction; "ze tornado, I would ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... rebuilt the railroad bridge, pushed forward the construction of a bateau bridge which had been commenced, in the meantime using the bateaux already constructed to ferry the troops across the river. In this manner we were able to advance as far as Morristown by February 29 with sufficient force to ...
— Forty-Six Years in the Army • John M. Schofield

... whistle to the note of the curlew; across the meadow from the church wandered Crane, the little Church of England missionary, peering from short-sighted pale blue eyes; beyond the coulee, Sarnier and his Indians chock-chock-chocked away at the seams of the long coast-trading bateau. The girl saw nothing, heard nothing. She was dreaming, she was ...
— Conjuror's House - A Romance of the Free Forest • Stewart Edward White

... de mon enfance, quelle impression vous m'avez laisse! Il me semble que c'est hier, ce voyage sur le Rhne. Je vois encore le bateau, ses passagers, son quipage; j'entends le bruit des roues et le sifflet de ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet



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