flatboats

Wagons were not regulated out of existence, nor were buggys before them or wheelwrights or flatboats.

Democrats declare war on West Virginia. Again. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

Some residents used flatboats to motor to submerged homes and salvage items.

Flooded river takes aim at Mississippi Delta 2011

The rivers are dirty with sweat and toil and lip, like lakes, along the low and burdened shores; flatboats ramble and thread among them, and above the steamers bridges swing on great arches of steel, striding with mighty grace from shore to shore.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Soon after getting the mills well running, and when the shipment of their surplus product down the river by flatboats had begun, I was ordered to move to Knoxville, on account of demonstrations by Longstreet from the direction of Blain's crossroads.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

When I piss folks get on flatboats and float downstream for fifty mile, and when I fart the Frenchmen catch the air in bottles and sell it for perfume.

He Don't Know Him 2010

British flatboats dropped off men, returned through the smoke, and scooped up more.

The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

British flatboats dropped off men, returned through the smoke, and scooped up more.

The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

The whole region was rich in provender of all kinds, and as the people with rare exceptions were enthusiastically loyal, we in a little while got more than enough food for ourselves, and by means of flatboats began sending the surplus down the river to the troops at Knoxville.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

British flatboats dropped off men, returned through the smoke, and scooped up more.

The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

Chapter 1 -- Hooch Not many flatboats were getting down the Hio these days, not with pioneers aboard, anyway, not with families and tools and furniture and seed and a few shoats to start a pig herd.

He Don't Know Him 2010