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- Flat-bottomed - a. - Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.
- Punt - n. - A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.
- Billyboy - n. - A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.
- Pitpan - n. - A long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of rivers and lagoons in Central America.
- Praam - n. - A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.
- Pontoon - n. - A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.
- Scow - n. - A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
- Counterbore - n. - A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.
- Flat-bottomed - a. - Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.
- Counterbore - n. - A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.
- Dory - n. - A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
- Flat - n. - A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- Patela - n. - A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.
- Tig - n. - A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.
- Sharpie - n. - A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
- Gondola - n. - A flat-bottomed boat for freight.