flatboat
fâlatâboht
- n a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
- Looking down into the muck to avoid hitting cars and up to maneuver around low hanging power lines and tree branches, we came upon a flatboat filled with law enforcement .
- Along narrow streams deep in the country there were leisurely men in overalls who pulled a flatboat across by wires for an occasional farmer's wagon or a model-T Ford.
- One thing Robert cut out was "the story of how his father sewed up the eyes of a drove of hogs, when he found it impossible to get them aboard a flatboat by driving them in the .