Flatboat: alternatives and connections

A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of t…

To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight.

The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square y…

A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up c…

A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers.

The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.

bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters

An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a littl…

Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.

The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.

small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, "special rates for empties."

To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.

commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market"

Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.

Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.