flatboat's Usage Examples:

); and the Santee, to the confluence of the Congaree and Wateree rivers, which are navigable for flatboats.

, and from Augusta to Petersburg, Georgia, for flatboats.

When nineteen he made a journey as a hired hand on a flatboat to New Orleans.

Being now twenty-one years of age, Abraham hired himself to Denton Offutt, a migratory trader and storekeeper then of Sangamon county, and he helped Offutt to build a flatboat and float it down the Sangamon, Illinois and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans.

Synonyms:

lighter, hoy, houseboat, boat, dredger, pontoon, scow, wherry, barge, Norfolk wherry,

Antonyms:

walk, linger,