flatboat in English

noun
1
a cargo boat with a flat bottom for use in shallow water.
Cajun boaters invented a flatboat called the bateau, to pass through shallow swamps.
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1. 20 Huck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his feet in the water and looking very melancholy.

2. 36 synonyms for Barge: canal boat, lighter, narrow boat, scow, flatboat, force, break, push, blast, thrust, interrupt, break in (on), muscle in (on)