batteau
noun
batteaux
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pluralof batteau.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Having neither the men nor defenses here to offer any effectual opposition, the Americans set fire to the fort, mills, and batteaux, and fled up Wood Creek toward Fort Anne.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)
Colonel Paris is taken, and our brigade surgeon, Younglove, and Captain Martin of the batteaux service.
From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Rogers left Crown Point on the night of the 12th of September with a detachment of 200, embarked in batteaux, and went cautiously down the lake.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)
Grand river is now navigable for batteaux, 240 miles, and receives in its course, Portage, Red-Cedar, Looking-glass, Maple, Muscota, Flat, Thorn-Apple, and Rouge rivers, besides smaller streams.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason
Sixteen hundred men, one hundred and twenty pieces of cannon, fourteen mortars, two ships of war, and two hundred boats and batteaux, fell into the conqueror's hands.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Roger, Charles
