A flat-bottomed boat.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The punt, flat-bottomed and old, he proclaimed a delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny] Reference

Why, these flat-bottomed things float in ever such a little water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island House A Tale for the Young Folks] Reference

And beyond, an old flat-bottomed punt and a river, a real river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny] Reference

Their flat-bottomed boats were suitable to shallows and ebbing tides.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

When the prow of the flat-bottomed boat ran gently up on the shore, at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails] Reference

For scooping out our flat-bottomed trenches, we use a tool like Fig. 77.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference

It shambled forward, its large, flat-bottomed paws acting like snowshoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polar Bear] Reference

The troops were taken on shore in flat-bottomed boats, with muffled oars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference

It is situated on the Muskingum river, which is navigable for flat-bottomed boats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference

Chillicothe is situated on the Sciota, a stream navigable for flat-bottomed boats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference

Bill Drake's father had a flat-bottomed boat that we got into and rowed along shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

This could be a problem with four women in a little twelve foot, flat-bottomed sailboat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carol Jones: The Funeral Train Began in Springfield] Reference

A flat-bottomed boiler is best -- with one rounding, there is greater risk of scorching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference

She was a flat-bottomed river-boat, and carried cargoes of hides and other Saladero produce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

The boat was of good size, and it was flat-bottomed, which meant it would not easily tip over.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island] Reference

= A keel was a flat-bottomed boat, used in the northeast of England, for loading and carrying coal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference

There we were crowded into flat-bottomed, lug-sailed boats for a third stage of our landward journey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference

I saw also a long, flat-bottomed boat go up the river, with a brisk wind, and against a strong stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference

At first linemen crept along the cables, carrying tow ropes to which flat-bottomed boats were attached.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference

All the flat-bottomed boats and those belonging to the squadron were ordered to land a number of marines.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

The next morning found him busy caulking a big flat-bottomed boat, which was already half laden with stores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

On the whole, solid tiles, with flat-bottomed passages, may be set down among the inventions of the adversary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference

She was flat-bottomed, and as she got into the region of whitecaps, she began to be blown bodily with the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference

Such light, clincher-built, high-nosed, flat-bottomed boats are in use wherever the fur-traders are or have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference

They made their way along for some distance until near the place where the three flat-bottomed skiffs were kept tied up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails] Reference

The flat-bottomed galleys rolled badly in a heavy sea, and in rough weather rowing was fatiguing and even perilous work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

Their only hope is now the horse-ferry, an aged flat-bottomed contrivance wound across by a squad of natives and a chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference

A passing lama directs us to a ferry down the river, where we cross by means of a flat-bottomed boat worked by an iron cable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference

As they approached the shore, flat-bottomed landing craft were pushed off course by a strong current and landed in the wrong places.    From Wordnik.com.  [D-DAY] Reference

Large and flat-bottomed, with an awning, dirty it must be confessed, beneath which swung a hammock, of which I took immediate possession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

Goods are transported on this river, to and from the town, in flat-bottomed boats, with the aid of long poles and by much patient pushing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades] Reference

Before leaving college -- and without engineering qualifications -- he helped design a flat-bottomed landing craft that sold round the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [SMALL TIME INVENTOR] Reference

A pair of deep, flat-bottomed holes have been chiseled out of the red clay of eastern Georgia, like twin sports arenas from the pre-Columbian era.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Co.'s Nuclear Game Plan] Reference

In the United States, only a small handful of outfitters lead organized expeditions, mostly in Utah and Arizona, and usually in dry or flat-bottomed canyons.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wall Of Black Water] Reference