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Meanings of flatboat in English
Synonyms
Examples for "lighter"
Examples for "lighter"
1
Regulation was far lighter in the years preceding the world's financial crisis.
2
This was a wonderful opportunity to change the subject to lighter issues.
3
The leader is a dark-brown stallion; the mares are lighter in colour.
4
The lighter your skin, the lower you were in the social scale.
5
Despite all these concerns, he felt increasingly lighter as the days passed.
1
I sat in the stern of the barge to tend the drag-rope.
2
Luckily, we can use your badge to barge around and ask questions.
3
Everybody in Plymouth would know this barge, and its purpose here today.
4
The blockages have cost barge companies and other shippers millions of dollars.
5
On the 4th I got a passage in the barge to H.M.C.S.
1
The voice came, appropriately enough, from the barrel-shaped captain of the hoy.
2
There lay the hoy in which he was to sail.
3
His was the only white face in the hoy; the others were painted black.
4
The rude fishermen of the Kentish coast eyed the hoy with suspicion and with cupidity.
5
The hoy's boat was towing under the quarter; they hauled it in and scrambled down.
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.
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United Kingdom
Common