mudboatn.
/ˈmʌdbəʊt/, U.S. /ˈmədˌboʊt/ 1. A boat used for transporting silt, mud, or ore. Cf. mud barge n. at mud n.1 Compounds 2a.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge > mud- or hopper-barge
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a1691 P. Skippon Acct. Journey Low-Countries in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) VI. 505 The scoop being full of mud, and shut against the spade N, the spiral is turned back, and spade and scoop are lifted up over a large mud-boat, and immediately the scoop is pulled open, that the mud may fall out.
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 204/2 Petitioning the Admiralty for the loan of a steam-tug or mud-boat.
1887 Littell's Living Age Oct. 46 They [sc. the Dutch canals] are grass-green with duckweed, though there is life enough on them of mud-boats and barges and such-like crafts.
1980 Oil & Gas Jrnl. (Nexis) 13 Oct. 204 OBI-Hughes, Inc., Houston has placed the offshore mud boat ‘OBI-IV’ into service. This new vessel will supply Texas Gulf of Mexico operators with drilling fluids and materials from its home port of Freeport.
1997 Jrnl. Commerce (Nexis) 11 Aug. a13 The crane lifts 1,800-pound bags of ground-up ore containing nickel sulfides from what the dockworkers call a mudboat, which comes every 21 days from Cuba.
2.
a. A board with raised sides used like a sledge to cross areas of mud.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel used for wildfowl shooting
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of
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1824 P. Hawker Instr. Young Sportsmen (ed. 3) 331 The gunner first lays his piece..into the ‘mud-boat’... Having got pretty near to his birds, he lies down in the ‘mud-boat’.
1858 Atlantic Monthly 91 The wheels were of rude workmanship, making the chariots little less liable to the infirmity of friction than those Western vehicles called mud-boats, used to navigate semi-fluid regions which pass on the map for terra firma.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 43 Mudboat, a low sled with wide runners, used for hauling logs in swamps.
b. U.S. A type of flat-bottomed propeller-powered boat suitable for navigating shallow or marshy lakes and river channels.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > small vessel
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1941 Sun (Baltimore) 13 Nov. 22/3 Rescue crews may use mudboats to liberate the birds still alive.
1979 C. Hallowell People of Bayou 38 We were in Jim's mudboat, an eighteen-foot skiff with an ancient sixteen-horsepower engine amidships and a propeller fastened close against the bottom.
1993 Louisiana Conservationist Jan.–Feb. 19/2 Pirogues, mud boats or ‘go-devils’ are the recommended means of travel in the prairie.
2001 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 9 Mar. (Metro section) 1 Champagne steered his aluminium mud boat to the side of the bayou.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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