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Flat-bottomed   /flæt-bˈɑtəmd/   Listen
adjective
flat-bottomed, flat-bottom  adj.  
1.
Having a flat bottom. "A flat-bottom boat"


flat-bottomed, flat-bottom  adj.  Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.





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"Flat-bottomed" Quotes from Famous Books



... from all parts, and were drilling every day. Bonaparte had been three years a-making his preparations; and to ferry these soldiers and cannon and horses across he had contrived a couple of thousand flat-bottomed boats. These boats were small things, but wonderfully built. A good few of 'em were so made as to have a little stable on board each for the two horses that were to haul the cannon carried at the stern. ...
— Life's Little Ironies - A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters • Thomas Hardy
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... Betty looked out of the window and behold a dismal prospect enough. The bank shelved gradually down to the river, which at this point was narrow, and between them and the other shore stretched a mixture of snow and ice; she could distinguish the flat-bottomed boat used for ferrying purposes stuck fast almost in ...
— An Unwilling Maid • Jeanie Gould Lincoln
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... rude craft, unpainted, flat-bottomed, but light enough, and not badly formed for speed. Susannah stepped into it without much hope, scarcely caring what she did, but still provoking the young ...
— The Mormon Prophet • Lily Dougall
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... orders issued in Louisbourg. '1st June, 1759. The Troops land no more. The flat-bottomed boats to be hoisted in, that the ships may be ready to sail at the first signal.' '2nd June, 1759. The Admiral purposes sailing the first fair wind.' On the 4th a hundred and forty-one sail weighed ...
— The Great Fortress - A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 • William Wood
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... is lacking," interrupted the Jew; "Memphis trades only with Egypt, and we with the whole world. The merchant who sends his goods here only load camels, and wretched asses, and flat-bottomed Nile-boats, while we in our harbors freight fine seagoing vessels. When the winter-storms are past our house alone sends twenty triremes with Egyptian wheat to Ostia and to Pontus; and your Indian and Arabian goods, your imports from the newly ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
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