flat-bottomed vessel

This helped the flat-bottomed vessels to enter shallow water.

She was a "flat-bottomed vessel, destined to protect the entrances to rivers".

He built flat-bottomed vessels to cope with the shallows, and uncertain depths of the sea.

The flat-bottomed vessel wasn't designed for the open sea, especially that night, when a distant tempest sent in seven-foot waves.

Everything is here except the heavy artillery and powder, and the flat-bottomed vessels for transporting troops across the lake are being prepared.

For transporting coal in calmer waters, such as rivers and lakes, flat-bottomed vessels called barges are often used.

The boat, a 21-foot bateau-style flat-bottomed vessel that was commonly used in colonial New York, will become part of the permanent exhibit at the manor.

Cashel slipped his quarterstaff under the single thwart, laying it over where the keel would've been if the flat-bottomed vessel had one.

An airboat is a flat-bottomed vessel with an airplane propeller at the back and is useful in shallow water and swamps.

Typical ceramics - flat-bottomed vessels (often with a red or orange color) with a short neck (often with carvings) and rounded torso.

Donald Pollard's 1942 Ship's Decanter, a flat-bottomed vessel with a modern-looking disc-shaped stopper, looks as if it could have been made yesterday.

The specifications for the canal that he was given called for locks sufficient in size to accommodate Durham boats, flat-bottomed vessels propelled by sail or oars.

Nevertheless, both harbours were used until the 16th century, the Schlachte for sea-going ships and the Balge for flat-bottomed vessels and river barges.

These were the dimensions of the locks of the recently built Lachine Canal near Montréal, which were designed for flat-bottomed vessels propelled by sail or manpower.

The term Zille (plural Zillen) is used for a family of flat-bottomed vessels which are used in the Danube River regions of Germany and Austria.

Gunmen in a flat-bottomed vessel raided the facility, which lies some two hours by boat off the coast of the southern Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom, shortly after midnight.

An airboat, also known as a fanboat, is a flat-bottomed vessel (jon boat) propelled in a forward direction by an aircraft-type propeller and powered by either an aircraft or automotive engine.

Emergency crews had to rescue some people from flooded neighborhoods in boats and airboats, the flat-bottomed vessels driven by airplane propellers that are used in the marshlands of the Everglades and Louisiana.

Years later The Examiner described it thus, "That (machine) operated in a wiggle-waggle sort of way depending on the pushing power of the waves against a broad surface, something like the centerboard of a flat-bottomed vessel."

This, a fast, flat-bottomed vessel propelled by oars or sail, or both, which could, because of its lack of keel, come very close into land, was essentially a vessel of interception, intended to catch attackers off the coast.

I again underline the fact that ships need to be made more flexible, that is, smaller flat-bottomed vessels should be used more for short-term, flexible, and hence intermodal transport in preference to major improvements being made to rivers.

Ojibwa and Algonquin people built the great bark canoes that travelled the inland waterways of central Canada; Métis boat builders constructed the flat-bottomed vessels that plied the Hudson Bay drainage and the Mackenzie River system.