batteau

American  

[ba-toh, ba-toh] / bæˈtoʊ, baˈtoʊ /

noun

Nautical.

plural

batteaux

1. bateau.

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Example Sentences

Waal, Major Littlepage, I'll put faith in you, and will look for the batteau at the place you've mentioned.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore

While amid loud rejoicings the story of her bloodless capture was told, they went merrily bowling homeward with the clumsy batteau surging along in tow at such speed as she had never known before.

From A Hero of Ticonderoga by Robinson, Rowland E.

Mr. Rainey said to us, 'I will tell your father, while we are crossing the river some evening in a batteau, that you and Agnes are married, and his suit is fruitless.

From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by Townsend, George Alfred

Such waves will often buffer off a canoe or batteau, and they must have helped some with the raft.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

Fleets swiftly ply where lagged the lone batteau, And quarries trench the gorge; Where waned the council-fire, now steadfast glow The pharos and the forge.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various