flat-bottomed
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- adjective
- /flætˈbɑːtəm/
:
de fondo plano
- Over three days, they have worked their way past rapids and sandbanks, two men per flat-bottomed riverboat with an outboard engine behind, in order to get to their seasonal camp up in the virgin forest.
- flat-bottomed boat
- flat-bottomed wok
- flat-bottomed skiff
Examples
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He poled his flat-bottomed dinghy to her.
Fiction book (1993) -
Where battered cars and pickups passed earlier, a boy poles a flat-bottomed skiff.
Academic text (1994) -
Tommy's father sat in a flat-bottomed boat in the very center of the algae-fringed water.
Fiction book (1991) -
Four days later, I stood on the shore of Lake Osborne, watching the police drag the area from small, flat-bottomed boats.
Fiction book (1997) -
Two men propelled a flat-bottomed skiff quietly over the water.
Fiction book (2001) -
The johnboat is a flat-bottomed affair with one set of oar locks and square in the stern.
Blog text (25) -
The canyon was a deep, flat-bottomed river gorge, and the trail followed the shallow, pebbly stream at the bottom.
Fiction book (1991) -
A flat-bottomed stainless steel cooking spoon was an ideal "dish" for processing the 45mm x 35mm plates.
Academic text (1996) -
It was an older craft, a flat-bottomed skiff with poles, oars, a mast, and a canvas sail, and was supplied with food and weapons as Matty had promised.
Fiction book (1993) -
She stirred the soup with a flat-bottomed wooden spoon to ensure even mixing.
Synonyms
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Having a level base that is not curved
Flat and level after wind or water wears it away
Antonyms
How Flat
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Flat-bottomed is made from two simple words: flat ('level' or 'not curved') and bottom ('base' or 'lowest part'). That's why a flat-bottomed pan, bucket, or boat has a 'flat' base that sits steady on the ground or on the water.