Flatboats is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLATBOATS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• FLATBOAT, a large flat-bottomed boat for transporting goods on a river, canal, etc.
• a boat with a flat bottom for transport in shallow water.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a flat-bottomed boat

Words related to FLATBOATS

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How to use FLATBOATS in a sentence

• Also he saw enormous flat-boats, crude of structure, moored along the banks of the river.
• Then the flotilla of clumsy flatboats, manned by tall riflemen, rowed and drifted cautiously down the Ohio between the melancholy and unbroken reaches of Indian-haunted forest.
• The flat-boats were lashed three together and kept in one line.
• During the whole period flatboats and small schooners could come to the wharf to take away the flour.
• It is a formidable one, embracing 78 steam-boats, 4 barges, 73 coal-boats, 3 salt-boats, and 4 others, flat-boats.
• Flat-boats are also employed for this purpose, and they are preferred, as they pass over the Falls, and thus land-carriage is avoided.
• The reinforcements from Spain arrived, and gunboats and flatboats, fitted out at Toulon, began to come upon the scene.
• Simultaneous with this onslaught, a division of howitzer flatboats was to throw shot into the port.
• Fifteen large flat-boats were built to convey the immigrants, their furniture, and such arms as they might need for repelling Indians.
• On the 28th we went up the river and crossed over on flatboats.
• They reached Skaguay in a snowstorm, went in dog sledges over the Chilkoot Pass, and shot the Yukon in flatboats.
• Long after steamboats were introduced, many flat-boats, loaded with products of the Northern States, floated down the river to a market.
• I saw Bob and several other boys, grimy with blacking, chasing each other across the flatboats, but Dickens was not there.
• Flatboats and barges came floating down the Mississippi past the plantation home where little Suzanne and Francoise were growing up to womanhood.
• He would cross the York River in flatboats, land at Gloucester, and march up the country through Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York.
• During the night he put forth on his flatboats, which were driven out of their course and much dispersed by untoward winds.
• Flat-boats were anchored in the river about one hundred yards apart, and heavy chain-cables stretched across them.
• Landed on the lake shore near some little stream, the immigrants would build flatboats, and painfully pole their way into the interior to some spot that took their fancy.
• One man at Fort Pitt saw fifty flatboats set forth between the first of March and the middle of April, 1787.
• In 1817 fifteen hundred flatboats and five hundred barges tied up to the levee.
• The decade during which the steamboats and the flatboats still struggled for the mastery, was the most picturesque period of Mississippi River life.
• At the ferry we reported to Captain Falconer, who was expeditiously sending each rider and horse aboard one of the waiting flat-boats as soon as each arrived.
• Travelers made journeys on flatboats, keel boats, and barges.
• There were also several flatboats loaded with valuable goods taken from captured barges.
• Both on the Ohio and the Mississippi we saw flatboats tied together heaped with coal, which had been loaded into them from the sides of the hills of the Alleghanies and elsewhere.
• The flatboats were lashed together as one solid boat covering six and one half acres, more space than a whole block of houses in a city, with one little steamboat to steer.

Similar words containing FLATBOAT without suffix s

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