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▪ I. ˈflat-bottom, n.
A boat with a flat bottom. (Cf. prec. and bottom n. 7.)
1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 337 The Tarentines..sent him great store of flat-bottoms, galleys, and of all sorts of passengers. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. i. xviii. 58 They use flat-bottoms, which do great services upon the River. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xix. v. 510 Admiral Conflans..Makes little of Rodney's havoc on the Flatbottoms at Havre.
▪ II. ˈflat-ˈbottom, a.
= flat-bottomed.
1598Florio, Piatta, a flat bottome boat or barge. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 70 Where they use flat-bottome boats. 1755Monitor No. 16 (1756) I. 141 Frighted out of their senses with scarecrows, invasions, flat-bottom-boats, &c. 1884Pall Mall G. 11 Sept. 11/1 A flat-bottom pontoon, divided into..watertight sections. |