radeau

American  

[ruh-doh] / rəˈdoʊ /

noun

• radeaux
  plural

1. an armed scow, variously rigged, used as a floating battery during the American Revolution.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• radeaux
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of radeau

1750–60; < French: raft < Provençal radel < Vulgar Latin *ratellus, diminutive of Latin ratis raft

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Example Sentences

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radeau

He therefore judged it necessary to build a brigantine, a radeau, and a sloop of 16 guns.

From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

There were also a radeau, the Thunderer, and a large gondola, the Loyal Convert, both heavily armed; but, being equally heavy of movement, they do not appear to have played any important part.

From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

In this statement the radeau and gondola have not been included, because of their unmanageableness.

From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Then three vessels under sail, and one at anchor above Split Rock, and behind it the radeau, Thunderer.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving

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