bateau
Also batteau .Nautical.
Chiefly Canadian and Southern U.S.. a small, flat-bottomed rowboat used on rivers.
a half-decked, sloop-rigged boat used for fishing on Chesapeake Bay; skipjack.
(in some regions) a scow.
a pontoon of a floating bridge.
Origin of bateau
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How to use bateau in a sentence
This time his mother, his old Frances, had been dragged into the infamous joke of the "bateau de fleurs."
The Nabob | Alphonse DaudetMalgr les efforts du bateau de sauvetage et des lignes envoyes au moyen du fusil porte-amarre, quatre hommes et le mousse ont pri.
Contes Franais | Douglas Labaree BuffumOne day there came up the river a bateau from Tadoussac, bringing the news that the ice was all out of the St. Lawrence.
The Quality of Mercy | W. D. HowellsMuch surprised, Mandy Ann knelt upright and 57 looked out over the edge of the bateau.
The Backwoodsmen | Charles G. D. RobertsMeanwhile the bateau had swept down swiftly, and passed them at a distance of not more than a hundred yards.
The Backwoodsmen | Charles G. D. Roberts
British Dictionary definitions for bateau
/ (bæˈtəʊ, French bato) /
a light flat-bottomed boat used on rivers in Canada and the northern US
Origin of bateau
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