Usage examples (8)

• The boat was a crude, shallow-draught affair with an almost flat bottom.
• Fifteen miles or more to the western end at Abermenai, but the smaller shallow-draught ships, oared by twenty rowers, could cover that distance rapidly.
• However, if we do take Crichley's point that there is a general shortage of shallow-draught patrol vessels, then the situation is even worse than he makes out.
• Look at "George Washington Crossing the Delaware": people and horses standing up in a small, shallow-draught boat just for starters but I do know that kind of painting...