batteau
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batteaux
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Give me half an hour to get into a batteau on the river and then you may tell him all.
From Sons and Fathers by Harry Stillwell Edwards
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
While one took the batteau by the bow, another kept hold of the stern to keep her from upsetting, or filling with water.
From An interesting journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut detailing the distressing events of the expedition against Quebec, under the command of Col. Arnold in the year 1775 by Abner Stocking
As confident, yer honor, as that the batteau had two inds.
From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend
With a piercing cry, scarcely less anguished than their own, the mad girl bounded to the shore, pushed off a light batteau, seized the oars, and the next moment was dancing over the foaming waves.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
While the families and sleighs were transported in the batteaux, the horses were taken along the shore by the larger boys, if such there were among them.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson
After the capture by five gunboats of a French armed brig that threatened the destruction of the batteaux and whaleboats, the army continued its advance to Fort Levis, near the head of the rapids.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
Skiffs were built of all sizes, from five hundred to twenty thousand pounds burden, and batteaux were the same as the larger skiffs, being indifferently known by either name.
From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Arthur Clinton Boggess
But on the 5th of July the whole army of nearly sixteen thousand men embarked in boats and batteaux for Ticonderoga.
From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
After the big batteaux and Peterboros I had used on the Columbia the previous year this bright little tin craft looked like a child's toy.
From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
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