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flatboat

[flat-boht] / ˈflætˌboʊt /


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

From Salon Aug. 27, 2022

Times best sellers: Rinker Buck shares his adventures on a wooden flatboat in “Life On The Mississippi,” a nonfiction best seller.

From New York Times Aug. 21, 2022

An adventure historian builds a 19th-century flatboat and sails it down the Mississippi River.

From Washington Post Aug. 16, 2022

Apparently, this self-taught prairie lawyer also taught himself how to buoy vessels in his early 20s, when a flatboat he worked on ran aground on a milldam in New Salem, Illinois.

From Slate May 29, 2014

Together they took a flatboat to the house.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers




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