flatboat

IPA: fɫˈætboʊt

A boxy, flat-bottomed boat used for carrying livestock, freight, and people on rivers.

Examples of "flatboat" in Sentences

Grady is to bring the flatboat with more supplies, and we leave early tomorrow.
“A few months on a flatboat in such splendor will give you time to think and to remember.”
Mr. Grady called a halt to their travel well before sundown, and they poled the flatboat to the shore.
I recalled the flatboat captain's warning that Old Thares would smell far worse than the timber fires had.
Cay was in bed asleep, dreaming about being on the flatboat and floating down the calm, peaceful Florida river.
The flatboat is the second of four projects identified as essential to the long-term growth of the Netherland Inn complex.
In the third week, they pulled the flatboat half out of the water and began a trek inland to see some ruins that Mr. Grady had heard about.
She staggered backward but managed to hold on to it even though she hit the side of the little building that stood at the far end of the flatboat.
Furthermore, the craft in which the visitor paddled out to the flatboat was the very one, as identified by Jethro, which, in some way, had been recaptured from the ranger.
A central character in the tale is Reuben Kemper, who came down the Mississippi from the Ohio Territory in a merchandise-laden flatboat, accompanied by a business partner, John Smith.