flatboat

Example Sentences

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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

“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!”

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen