A flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
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Examples for "lighter"
Examples for "lighter"
1Regulation was far lighter in the years preceding the world's financial crisis.
2This was a wonderful opportunity to change the subject to lighter issues.
3The leader is a dark-brown stallion; the mares are lighter in colour.
4The lighter your skin, the lower you were in the social scale.
5Despite all these concerns, he felt increasingly lighter as the days passed.
1I sat in the stern of the barge to tend the drag-rope.
2Luckily, we can use your badge to barge around and ask questions.
3Everybody in Plymouth would know this barge, and its purpose here today.
4The blockages have cost barge companies and other shippers millions of dollars.
5On the 4th I got a passage in the barge to H.M.C.S.
1On the morrow the people in the flatboat came to say good-bye.
2The launching of that flatboat was made a feast-day in the neighborhood.
3A flatboat, with a man standing to the oars, bore down swiftly.
4They had found the negro's flatboat, and carried it to the stream.
5The early company went in a flatboat; these went in a round-bottom boat.
1The voice came, appropriately enough, from the barrel-shaped captain of the hoy.
2There lay the hoy in which he was to sail.
3His was the only white face in the hoy; the others were painted black.
4The rude fishermen of the Kentish coast eyed the hoy with suspicion and with cupidity.
5The hoy's boat was towing under the quarter; they hauled it in and scrambled down.
6Think about how sad you are right now about that hoy's death, about all of their deaths.
7Well, well, Dame, then we will content ourselves with a run in the hoy down to Margate.
8I sailed aboard a small hoy, so we couldn't take on too large or well defended a ship.
9What they call a hobbe-de-hoy will suit for his name sooner than any other that I know on.
11I gave immediate orders to summon a hoy to carry me that evening to Dartmouth, without considering any consequence.
12For up started Mowbray, writhing and shaking himself as in an ague-fit; his hands stretched over his head-withthy hoy!
13They dragged the hoy to the sapling, stood him erect against the slim trunk, and hound him fast with green withes.
14Como stamos hoy de mosquitos?)
15He shipped his furniture on board a hoy of Rainham, and accompanied it down the Thames to the junction with the Medway.
16The Navy Office charter of the hoy presumably compelled Baddlestone to give passages to transient officers, but omitted all reference to subsistence.