Flatboat is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLATBOAT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a large flat-bottomed boat for transporting goods on a river, canal, etc.
• a boat with a flat bottom for transport in shallow water.
• flat-bottomed boat for transporting goods on a canal
• A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.
• a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a flat-bottomed boat

Words related to FLATBOAT

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Words that contain FLATBOAT

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How to use FLATBOAT in a sentence

• Gentry, to accompany his son to New Orleans, with a flat-boat of produce, which he sold successfully.
• When he had gone about five miles, he saw a flat-boat at a landing, on which were people drinking and having a merry time.
• He intended, in the spring, to load this on a flatboat and send it down the river to New Orleans.
• At last they were taken off by a passing flat-boat.
• At last, late in May, he started in a crowded flat-boat down the Ohio, and was enchanted with the wild and beautiful scenery.
• The celebrated flatboat built by Lincoln and by him piloted to New Orleans, was a much larger and better craft than the one here portrayed.
• The flatboat was done in about a month, and Lincoln and his friends prepared to leave Sangamon.
• The flatboat built and loaded, the party started for New Orleans about the middle of April.
• He obtained a rudimentary education while running a flat-boat on the James and Appomattox Rivers.
• I promised faithfully to pay for that cargo of salt to-day, so that it would be on the river bank ready for loading when the flatboat comes to-morrow.
• There was a panic throughout this vicinity a few days ago, over the landing of a flatboat, and the coming ashore of the unfortunates who were on it.
• In the morning, the loading of the flatboat and the getting ready for departure, took all our thought.
• In the fall of 1816 he built himself a small flatboat, which he launched at the mouth of Knob Creek, half a mile from his cabin, on the waters of the Rolling Fork.
• It would take from three to five years to transport material across two continents by caravan and flatboat and dog sled.
• Just abreast of them lay a flatboat, emptied of its cargo and moored to the levee.
• We were therefore enchanted to learn that she would be with us on board the flatboat, and that papa had engaged her services in place of the attendants we had to leave behind.
• You remember I have often told you of an awning stretched at the stern of the flatboat? We found that in fine weather our dining-room was to be under this.
• Presently several came close to the flatboat and showed us two deer and some wild turkeys and ducks, the spoils of their hunting.
• And, to make all complete, troops of hungry alligators clambered upon the sides of our flatboat with jaws open to devour us.
• When we had brilliant moonlight the flatboat would continue its course to a late hour.
• But when it happened that the flatboat made an early stop to let our men rest, the programme was changed.
• The flatboat continued its course, and some slight signs of civilization began to appear at long intervals.
• Suddenly two men with guns came out of the woods, but at the sight of the flatboat stood petrified.
• The flatboat, tossed by the wind and waves, seemed to writhe in agony, while now and then the trunks of uprooted trees, lifted by the waves, smote it as they passed.
• Thence we shall return to the flatboat, and all that two men can do to save our fortune shall be done.
• On the morrow the people in the flatboat came to say good-bye.
• Two days after the flatboat had gone, we having spent the night with Alix, came M.
• The night was black and the lake noisy when we got under way, bound for a flatboat ferry.
• As settlement and business increased, the canoe gave place to the raft, and the raft yielded to the flatboat.
• Here he would dispose of his cargo, perhaps for shipment to Europe, sell his flatboat for the lumber in it, and begin his painful way back again to the head of navigation.
• The flatboat never attempted to return against the stream.
• Roosevelt, set out from Pittsburg in a flatboat of the usual type, to make the voyage to New Orleans.
• The flatboat was the sum of human ingenuity applied to river navigation.
• But two hundred and eighty-seven steamboats also tied up to the levee that year, and the end of the flatboat days was in sight.

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