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Recent Examples of flatboat
On Christmas Eve 1788, settlers hopped into flatboats at Limestone (Maysville, Kentucky) and traveled for four days down the icy Ohio River to establish Losantiville, later called Cincinnati.
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Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
As many as a quarter of all flatboats wrecked en route to New Orleans.
—Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
Travel writer Rinker Buck built a flatboat and traveled from Pittsburgh to New Orleans on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
—Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2022
An adventure historian builds a 19th-century flatboat and sails it down the Mississippi River.
—Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flatboat
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Some adventure-seekers kayak or canoe around Isle Royale instead of backpacking.—
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Rent a kayak or canoe and paddle down the Connecticut River shaded by a generous canopy of seasonal vegetation.—
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Offshore, kite surfers dance across the lagoon while fishermen paddle slender pirogues above shallow coral gardens alive with neon wrasse and ghostly butterflyfish.—
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Colorful traditional wooden outrigger canoes called pirogues line the beach where men spend hours mending their nets.—
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But those were mere skiffs by comparison with the general-entertainment battleships.—
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The Tacketts rejected the Alaska State Trooper’s conclusion that their son had fallen out of the skiff and drowned.—
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Chinese-style mud houses line the lake’s edge—their curved roofs reflected in still waters as wooden rowboats drift past floating lanterns.—
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Crossing the Pacific Ocean is a daunting task by any measure, but imagine doing it in a rowboat, completely unsupported.—
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The investment was led by Aker, the Norwegian industrial investment company, with additional participation from a raft of firms including Nvidia, Nokia and Dell.—
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Offer was most recently showrunner of Paramount+’s Ice Airport Alaska and her resume includes a raft of premium documentaries across Disney+, Discovery and National Geographic.—
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Kelly’s father owned a pontoon boat that, in high school, had been off limits.—
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The result is what seems to be a cross between a catamaran and a giant fishing pontoon with a large open deck measuring 900 ft² (83 m²) that can handle standard shipping containers weighing up to 30 tonnes.—
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But the man's kayak, an orange and black vessel, was spotted near the South Yard area near Glen Road, the Newport Police said.—
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Some adventure-seekers kayak or canoe around Isle Royale instead of backpacking.—
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Take The Kids To Andretti Thrill Park Zoom around an F1 speedtrack, play a round of mini golf or laser tag, take a spin in a paddleboat, or take an exhilarating ride on the Drop n’ Twist Tower.—
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Stillwater River Boats offers seasonal tours of the St. Croix on an old-fashioned paddleboat, including sightseeing and jazz brunch cruises.—
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“Flatboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flatboat. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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