batteau
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If you mean a real old batteau steersman, I never saw one either.
From On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland by Sayler, H. L. (Harry Lincoln)
Travellers from Montreal to the west would come by a batteau, or Durham boat, to Kingston.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Ryerson, Egerton
The batteau was too cumbrous for use toward the head waters of the Missouri, and it was to be sent back to St. Louis.
From Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark by Lighton, William R. (William Rheem)
As confident, yer honor, as that the batteau had two inds.
From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by Townsend, George Alfred
Of the boats in which the party was embarked, the batteau was a keel-vessel fifty-five feet in length, carrying a large square sail, and manned by twenty-two oars.
From Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark by Lighton, William R. (William Rheem)
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