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- adjective Alternative spelling of
flat-bottomed .
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- adjective having a flat bottom
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Examples
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Unless he ran a flatbottomed boat for bonefish in the Keys.
outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2002
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Every type of military store was amassed in profusion, Antwerp was converted into a naval arsenal, and flatbottomed boats and barges collected in every port between Ostend and Étaples.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Every type of military store was amassed in profusion, Antwerp was converted into a naval arsenal, and flatbottomed boats and barges collected in every port between Ostend and Étaples.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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It was a flatbottomed outrigged deal boat, very long, and so narrow that to look over one's shoulder in it was a manoeuvre of extreme delicacy, especially where the rapids caused the water to be in wild commotion.
Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Why unmoors that flatbottomed craft, that gabarre; about eleven at night; with Ninety Priests under hatches?
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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And still further to divert the enemy's attention from the proper seat of danger, he also prepared thirty-two flatbottomed boats, upon which there were only fireworks burning, and whose sole object was to deceive the enemy.
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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And still further to divert the enemy's attention from the proper seat of danger, he also prepared thirty-two flatbottomed boats, upon which there were only fireworks burning, and whose sole object was to deceive the enemy.
History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 04 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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And still further to divert the enemy's attention from the proper seat of danger, he also prepared thirty-two flatbottomed boats, upon which there were only fireworks burning, and whose sole object was to deceive the enemy.
History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Complete Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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In State v McIlroy (268 Ark 277, 1980) the Arkansas Supreme Court determined that a stream used only for recreational purposes by canoeists and fishermen in flatbottomed boats 18 feet long was navigable.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local cavebat 2010
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Such use would include flatbottomed boats for fishing and canoes for floating - or both.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local cavebat 2010
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