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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a boat having a flat bottom and pointed bow and stern, used for inland freight traffic.
Quotations
1859
A flat boat was built and they all embarked on it to drift down the river, as they had no crew.
1870
The construction of flat boats for river navigation and other preparations for the North-West expedition are actively going forward.
1936
Leaving the end of steel in their scows and flat-boats they floated down the Athabasca, the Slave and the Mackenzie rivers, carrying to the native the "blessings" of civilization . . . .
1963
In only five years [from 1858] the S.S. Selkirk would arrive with a flatboat bearing the "Countess of Dufferin," the first locomotive to enter the Canadian North-West.