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bonne
[< Cdn F]
Obs., Lumbering
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n.
a sturdy flat-bottomed boat about 20 ft. long, pointed fore and aft and having a shallow draft, specially designed for use in river drives.
Quotations
1891
Not much baggage could be carried so as not to burthen too heavily the three or four "bonnes," as they call the long, light, flat-bottomed boats, peculiar to lumbermen. . . .