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flatboat

noun

Definition of flatboat

as in canoe

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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. — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024 Those who made it safely to New Orleans sold their wares, then sold the warped wood from their flatboats as scrap. — 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 See All Example Sentences for flatboat

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Noun

Travis Meier is a portage runner who carries canoes to raise awareness for Minnesota's public lands.

— CBS News, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026
The pair also had a daughter, Harper, who died in a canoe accident that Verity and Crew survived.

— Glamour, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of canoe

Noun

Wooden pirogue boats idle in the bay, while young people do odd jobs – rolling car tires across town or selling bags of tap water – to help their parents make ends meet.

— Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2025
Offshore, kite surfers dance across the lagoon while fishermen paddle slender pirogues above shallow coral gardens alive with neon wrasse and ghostly butterflyfish.

— Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025

Definition of pirogue

Noun

Matt Steven stepped into the booth at the start of 2026, having already coached New Zealand’s 49er skiff crew to an Olympic silver medal at Paris 2024.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
The teen told White that his brother was still under the skiff at the time of his rescue, according to the Anchorage Daily News.

— Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of skiff

Noun

As pheasants dart around the 13,000-acre Althorp estate, Charles Spencer carefully climbs into a small rowboat on the edge of Althorp’s historic Round Oval lake and paddles to the center island.

— Michelle Tauber, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2026
In Sacramento, the new governor, Leland Stanford, had to be taken to his inauguration by rowboat.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of rowboat

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Cuba has enacted a raft of economic reforms aimed at opening up the private sector, but Cuba's leaders have said not to expect political reform.

— Matt Gutman, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
The findings come three decades after the democratic government introduced a raft of measures — known as Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) — aimed at reversing the dispossession suffered by Black people under apartheid and colonialism.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of raft

Noun

Twenty-six miles to the south, Ronald Conley rescued his dogs from his elevated house with a pontoon boat.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Highlights and experiences It is always a special event stepping out of Venice’s airport onto a pontoon and a polished mahogany water taxi that drops you off canalside near your hotel, after a purr through the Grand Canal.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of pontoon

Noun

The company aims to create the absolute sweet spot in terms of an affordable, featherlight, roomy and convenient solo tent for rigorous backpacking, kayak camping, bikepacking and more.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Oct. 2026
Prices are $99 for a single kayak or $189 for a tandem kayak.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of kayak

Noun

Story of the steamboat Washoe The Washoe was a 385-ton side-wheel paddleboat with four 32-foot-long iron boilers set on the deck, the Deadliest American Disasters site said.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2026
One of the nation’s largest urban parks, this 1,300-acre expanse has golf, paddleboats, a live oak estimated to be 800 years old, a botanical garden, and the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA).

— Jenny Adams, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2026

Definition of paddleboat

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