flatboat

1 The rafts, the coal-barges, the humble skiffs, and flatboats were all tied up for the night.

2 “Heavy? One gallon heavy? Why, I’ve carried as much as four gallons clear from that big end tree to the flatboat, and you know it!”

3 With a comrade I crossed the Missouri river at Plattsmouth on a flatboat.

4 The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says its agents have recovered an overturned 12-foot flatboat with a trolling motor, plus an ice chest and other items.

5 To those who remained on the Walla Walla now fell the difficult task of constructing flatboats.

6 She could carry three small bucketsful in her bucket, but it was so heavy she couldn’t lift it to dump it into the high tank on the flatboat.

7 Harman Blennerhassett and about 40 of Burr’s men set off from the island during the night of Dec. 10 in four flatboats and one smaller craft and escaped downriver to Kentucky.

8 The flatboats floated on rivers that drained into the Mississippi River.

9 Having your flatboat regularly get stuck would be the equivalent today of facing massive traffic jams or having your car constantly stall out.

10 A dozen flatboats were anchored or moored to the banks of the river facing the abbey, and the monks were transported thither and held for a ransom of a thousand crowns each.

11 While they were gone upon this mission, the overseer placed the Magnolia ahead of the flatboat, in readiness to tow it down the creek.

12 Our conveyance was a penny flatboat, running on a chain, which chain hauled itself up wet and dripping from the bed of the river.

13 Huge flatboats and a multitude of smaller craft plied backward and forward between the harbors and the mainland.

14 These goods were shipped on flatboats, or cargo boats with flat bottoms.

15 A large flatboat, oblong in shape, and of the kind commonly called “scow,” was lying on rollers far up on the beach and close under the cliff.

16 It had receded to the 11th step by the following day, when a uniformed man appeared in a motorized flatboat.

17 Each had its wharf or flatboat from which the trader could load his vessel.

18 All that day and night, he waited in the pile of bodies, looking out at the harbor, hoping the flatboat would return.

19 Having your flatboat regularly get stuck would be the equivalent today of facing massive traffic jams, or having your car constantly stall out.

20 The story of five western boys who take a flatboat on a venture to New Orleans.

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