flatboat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of flatboat
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Having your flatboat regularly get stuck would be the equivalent today of facing massive traffic jams, or having your car constantly stall out.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2022
Times best sellers: Rinker Buck shares his adventures on a wooden flatboat in “Life On The Mississippi,” a nonfiction best seller.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
An adventure historian builds a 19th-century flatboat and sails it down the Mississippi River.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2022
Apparently, this self-taught prairie lawyer also taught himself how to buoy vessels in his early 20s, when a flatboat he worked on ran aground on a milldam in New Salem, Illinois.
From Slate ● May 29, 2014
She could carry three small bucketsful in her bucket, but it was so heavy she couldn’t lift it to dump it into the high tank on the flatboat.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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