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
An adventure historian builds a 19th-century flatboat and sails it down the Mississippi River.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2022
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
Daddy drove the horses to pull the flatboat with its huge tank because it was too steep and muddy for the tractor in this bush.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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