In 1820, heeding his true calling, he jumped on a flat boat heading for the Louisiana wilderness.

He set down the lantern, tried to raise the side of the flat boat.

They went down the ruts to the river bank and onto a flat boat that was planted there.

A punt is a flat boat with a broad front, designed for use in small rivers or other shallow water.

In a lit dc while they saw a wide flat boat plying toward them across the water.

When the country was a Spanish colony, and some years after the Independence, flat boats were used to move around the region.

Putting his men across the river in flat boats that night, he pressed Sumter hard the next day.

They peered out of the building and saw a long flat boat sliding past the island, ablaze with torches.

On the second day we crossed to the other side of the Hudson in flat boats, with our horses.

Large numbers of flat boats, especially from the Ohio and its tributaries, continued to carry produce downstream.