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  • adjective Having a flat bottom.

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  • adjective having a flat bottom

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Examples

  • People fish from chairs bolted to flat-bottomed bass boats, and from rickety wooden docks jutting into the water.

    A Hundred Miles on the Erie Canal 2009

  • But now I am staring at that picture, the determined look on my grandfather's face as he tried to get that flat-bottomed boat off that sand bar and wondering: To what extent have I outrun my genetic heritage? â¨â¨I still suffer from a variety of forms of obsessive behavior.

    Tom Matlack: A Man In A Boat Tom Matlack 2011

  • A jumble of boats was moored there, from tiny rowboats to large flat-bottomed river barges.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • A jumble of boats was moored there, from tiny rowboats to large flat-bottomed river barges.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • People fish from chairs bolted to flat-bottomed bass boats, and from rickety wooden docks jutting into the water.

    A Hundred Miles on the Erie Canal 2009

  • The flat-bottomed boat, which was only 12 feet wide, was fitted with side wheels and powered by a coal-fired steam engine.

    Carolyn Vega: Quicksilver Bob Invents the "Highest Blessing of the Water" Carolyn Vega 2011

  • In addition, six of the service's Disaster Assistance Response Teams, river-rescue units equipped with shallow-draft, flat-bottomed boats, were staging in areas that are expected to be hit by flood waters.

    Irene Rakes Coast, Leaves Thousands Without Power Mike Esterl 2011

  • They're super-cheap and beautiful, thin and flat-bottomed, with straight sides.

    Food-World Royalty 2011

  • The flat-bottomed boat, which was only 12 feet wide, was fitted with side wheels and powered by a coal-fired steam engine.

    Carolyn Vega: Quicksilver Bob Invents the "Highest Blessing of the Water" Carolyn Vega 2011

  • The flat-bottomed tow boat has a sufficient outboard motor and, not surprisingly, beer.

    A Splash of Southern Comforts Lawrence LaRose 2011

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