flat-bottomed
[flat-bot-uh md]
- (of boats) having a flat bottom.
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Origin of flat-bottomed
First recorded in 1575–85
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The troops were taken on shore in flat-bottomed boats, with muffled oars.
The Land We Live InHenry Mann
He declared that he and Dow could build a flat-bottomed boat in three days.
Roosevelt in the Bad LandsH. Hagedorn.
She was flat-bottomed, flat-sided, flat-bowed, and flat-sterned.
The Three MidshipmenW.H.G. Kingston
The flat-bottomed transports in which horses were embarked in the Crusades.
The Sailor's Word-BookWilliam Henry Smyth
Underneath the water, they were simply like flat-bottomed scows.
James B. EadsLouis How