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Definition of Flatboat
1. Noun. A flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
Generic synonyms: Boat
Specialized synonyms: Dredger, Houseboat, Pontoon, Scow, Norfolk Wherry, Wherry
Derivative terms: Barge, Lighter
Definition of Flatboat
1. n. A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.
Definition of Flatboat
1. Noun. A boxy, flat-bottomed boat used for carrying livestock, freight, and people on rivers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flatboat
1. a flat-bottomed boat [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatboat
Literary usage of Flatboat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1905)
"Bull et al. ten o'clock, in the forenoon, whilst the flatboat, No. 2, was going
down stream in the usual and proper channel. ..."
2. Makers of Arkansas History by John Hugh Reynolds (1905)
"If a pioneer, living up the valley, wished to market his products, he himself
had to carry them down the river in a flatboat or on a raft. ..."
3. The Connecticut River and the Valley of the Connecticut: Three Hundred and by Edwin Munroe Bacon (1906)
"Soon after the coming of the English colonists, however, the flatboat, or scow,
was contrived which could run the Enfield rapids at high water, ..."
4. A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the Development in Modes by Seymour Dunbar (1915)
"... accounts exist by which the amount of flatboat travel on western rivers from
about 1788 until its final disappearance can be approximately reckoned. ..."
5. The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic by William Evans Burton (1859)
"... j of the flatboat that lies at your lauding, I'm not proud, ... on my flatboat
as ever was fotch down the Mississippi river ; but thar's a great many ..."
6. Audubon, the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time by Francis Hobart Herrick (1917)
"... "ark" and keelboat—Chief pleasures of the naturalist at Louisville— The partners
move their goods by flatboat to Henderson, Kentucky, and then to Ste. ..."
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