Word Meanings - FLATBOAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.

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• FREIGHT
  1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• BOTTOMRY
  A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage
• FREIGHTAGE
  1. Charge for transportation; expense of carriage. 2. The transportation of freight. 3. Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.
• SQUARE-TOED
  Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.
• SQUARELY
  In a square form or manner.
• FREIGHTLESS
  Destitute of freight.
• SQUARE-RIGGED
  Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• BOTTOM
  The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak. Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft. Full
• SQUARE
  An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc. 5. Hence, a pattern or rule. (more
• SHALLOW-PATED
  Shallow-brained.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• WATERSHED
  1. The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake. 2. The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a
• WATERSPOUT
  A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land. Note: Tall columns, apparently of cloud, and reaching from the sea to the clouds, are seen moving along,
• FREIGHTER
  1. One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship. 2. One employed in receiving and forwarding freight. 3. One for whom freight is transported. 4. A vessel used mainly to carry freight.
• SHALLOWNESS
  Quality or state of being shallow.
• WATERSHOOT
  That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone. 3. A trough for discharging water. (more info) 1. A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• SULPHUR-BOTTOM
  A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
• T SQUARE
  See T
• UNBOTTOMED
  Deprived of a bottom. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• AFFREIGHTER
  One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
• CAPSQUARE
  A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.
• OVERFREIGHT
  To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload.
• FOURSQUARE
  Having four sides and four equal angles. Sir W. Raleigh.