Flatboat meaning

flăt'bōt'
A boat with a flat bottom and square ends used for transporting freight on inland waterways.
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A boat with a flat bottom, for carrying freight in shallow waters or on rivers.
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A boxy, flat-bottomed boat used for carrying livestock, freight, and people on rivers.
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Flatboat Sentence Examples

  • When nineteen he made a journey as a hired hand on a flatboat to New Orleans.

  • By Wagon and Flatboat, by Enid Meadowcroft.

  • Being now twenty-one years of age, Abraham hired himself to Denton Offutt, a migratory trader and storekeeper then of Sangamon county, and he helped Offutt to build a flatboat and float it down the Sangamon, Illinois and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans.

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