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Flatboat   Listen
noun
Flatboat  n.  A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Flatboat" Quotes from Famous Books



... found in the conduct of the quartermaster who superintended the shipment of the same from Pittsburgh. Though he was offered a contract to ship these supplies by a steamboat, and to deliver them at New Orleans in ample time for use, for some reason he declined the offer. He then had them loaded on a flatboat and slowly floated to their destination, when there was little or no hope of their arrival in time for use. At the date of the final battle at New Orleans they were afloat somewhere near the mouth of the Ohio River, ...
— The Battle of New Orleans • Zachary F. Smith

... lay down upon the ground, where they could see the four troopers without being seen. They had found the negro's flatboat, and carried it to the stream. This was done, perhaps, half a mile above where the wanderers had landed, and the current was not so violent as it was where the water concentrated all its force ...
— A Lieutenant at Eighteen • Oliver Optic

... the big flatboat, or bateau, down the river, and thirteen men went with it. The two perogues and the six new cottonwood dugouts they took on west, up the river, when they started, on March 7, 1805, to finish their journey across the continent. Of these men, the ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough



Words linked to "Flatboat" :   dredger, Norfolk wherry, barge, wherry, boat, pontoon, hoy, lighter, houseboat



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