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Meanings of
flatboat
in English
Portuguese
bateira
Catalan
pastera
Spanish
gabarra
Back to the meaning
A flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
lighter
barge
hoy
Portuguese
bateira
Usage of
flatboat
in English
1
On the morrow the people in the
flatboat
came to say good-bye.
2
The launching of that
flatboat
was made a feast-day in the neighborhood.
3
A
flatboat
,
with a man standing to the oars, bore down swiftly.
4
They had found the negro's
flatboat
,
and carried it to the stream.
5
The early company went in a
flatboat
;
these went in a round-bottom boat.
6
We found the camp deserted; all our companions were on board the
flatboat
.
7
Everything depended upon boarding the
flatboat
and pushing off at once from shore.
8
Then a man came out from shore in a large
flatboat
.
9
The old
flatboat
seemed ready to slide from under him at any minute.
10
He brought a lot of families on a big boat called a
flatboat
.
11
Only two men got on the
flatboat
with Charlie when it was ready.
12
Leaving his family behind him, he started for New Orleans on a
flatboat
.
13
He is taken on for New Orleans aboard a
flatboat
.
14
I finally reached this side of the river on the
flatboat
,
and swam ashore.
15
The
flatboat
was piled with as many bales as it could hold without sinking.
16
You were simply going to attack and rob the
flatboat
.
Other examples for "flatboat"
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flatboat
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
big flatboat
large flatboat
old flatboat
take a flatboat
work the flatboat
More collocations
Translations for
flatboat
Portuguese
bateira
barca
barcaça
Catalan
pastera
barcassa
Spanish
gabarra
Flatboat
through the time
Flatboat
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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