Flatboat (Noun)
Meaning
A flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- A group of dockworkers labored to load cargo onto a massive flatboat preparing to travel up the Ohio River.
- Historic photographs often feature old-fashioned flatboats floating on American canals with heaps of crates stacked upon their wooden decks.
- Back then, these rural people constructed homemade flatboats in preparation for ferrying cattle, hogs, corn and goods from this sleepy trading center up river to hungry big city markets.
- Under gloomy afternoon skies, groups of boating men traversed regional waterways as flatboats moved cumbersome loads northward on their cumbersome task.
- Epic flatboat marathons saw these barge-like watercraft convey huge stacks of coal and brick across centuries-old inland French regions.