Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A boat with a flat bottom and square ends used for transporting freight on inland waterways.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A flat-bottomed boat of considerable size, roughly made of strong timbers, for floating merchandise, etc., down the Mississippi and other western rivers. Such boats were in early times the principal means of transportation by water, and are not yet entirely obsolete. At the end of the downward voyage they are broken up and their material is sold.
Wiktionary
- n. A boxy, flat-bottomed boat used for carrying livestock, freight, and people on rivers.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
Examples
“I recalled the flatboat captain's warning that Old Thares would smell far worse than the timber fires had.”
“Furthermore, the craft in which the visitor paddled out to the flatboat was the very one, as identified by Jethro, which, in some way, had been recaptured from the ranger.”
“The flatboat is the second of four projects identified as essential to the long-term growth of the Netherland Inn complex.”
“A central character in the tale is Reuben Kemper, who came down the Mississippi from the Ohio Territory in a merchandise-laden flatboat, accompanied by a business partner, John Smith.”
“Cay was in bed asleep, dreaming about being on the flatboat and floating down the calm, peaceful Florida river.”
“She staggered backward but managed to hold on to it even though she hit the side of the little building that stood at the far end of the flatboat.”
““A few months on a flatboat in such splendor will give you time to think and to remember.””
“Grady is to bring the flatboat with more supplies, and we leave early tomorrow.”
“Mr. Grady called a halt to their travel well before sundown, and they poled the flatboat to the shore.”
“In the third week, they pulled the flatboat half out of the water and began a trek inland to see some ruins that Mr. Grady had heard about.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘flatboat’.
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boat phrases/words
how boat is used
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Out to Sea
If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
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Words of Blood Meridian
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skipvia's Words
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skipvia See barge board. Feb 15, 2008