flatboat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of flatboat
Example Sentences
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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
The jovial figures in Bingham’s 1846 “The Jolly Flatboatmen” are in high spirits, yet they are dancing precariously on the roof of a Missouri flatboat, under which the cargo space looks cramped, dark and ominous.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2020
It was a radical departure from the wooden flatboat of Lincoln’s youth, but one familiar to a mind as inventive and industrious as his own.
From Slate ● May 29, 2014
Together they took a flatboat to the house.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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