flatboat
IPA: fɫˈætboʊt
noun
- A boxy, flat-bottomed boat used for carrying livestock, freight, and people on rivers.
Advertisement
Examples of "flatboat" in Sentences
- It was an early flatboat landing site.
- He is known for his invention of the flatboat.
- They completed the journey down the Ohio River by flatboat.
- He would accompanying the timber on the river in a flatboat.
- This created a booming business in flatboat building in both communities.
- Smith kept a hotel and ferried passengers across the river on a flatboat.
- This differentiates the flatboat from the raft, which floats on the water.
- In the meantime steamboat and flatboat trade on the Red River came to a halt.
- The name was changed to Bridgeport, because it was a flatboat port at a bridge.
Advertisement
Advertisement