johnboat

john·boat

a flat-bottomed boat with square ends, used on inland waters as for fishing

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Noun

(plural johnboats)

a flat-bottomed boat with a very shallow draft, whose bow and stern are both squared off
Eddie liked to take his johnboat into the shallow, reedy, sandbars that the out-of-town fishermen, with their big, expensive, fiberglass bassboats, couldn't reach.