flat-bottomn.
1. A boat with a flat bottom. Cf. flat-boat n. 1 and bottom n. 4.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun]
plat1449
float1557
flat-bottom1579
tumbrila1625
flat-boat1660
tumbril boat1688
turnel boat1688
flat1749
kettle-bottom1838
flatty1892
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 435 The Tarentines..sent him great store of flatbottomes, gallies, and of all sortes of passengers.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed i. xviii. 58 They use flat-bottoms, which do great services upon the River.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xix. v. 510 Admiral Conflans..Makes little of Rodney's havoc on the Flatbottoms at Havre.
2. U.S. = flat-boat n. 2.
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1834 H. Brackenridge Recoll. 207 The shore is lined with the various kinds of keels, flat bottoms or arks, of all sizes and forms used in the growing trade of the West.
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flat-bottomadj.
/flatˈbɒtəm/, U.S. /ˌflætˈbɑdəm/, /ˈflætˌbɑdəm/ = flat-bottomed adj.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [adjective]
flat-bottomed1582
flat-bottom1598
kettle-bottomed1838
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Piatta, a flat bottome boat or barge.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 70 Where they use flat-bottome boats.
1755 Monitor No. 16 (1756) I. 141 Frighted out of their senses with scarecrows, invasions, flat-bottom-boats, &c.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Sept. 11/1 A flat-bottom pontoon, divided into..watertight sections.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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