= FLAT-BOTTOMED.
1598. Florio, Piatta, a flat bottome boat or barge.
1660. F. Brooke, trans. Le Blanc’s Trav., 70. The best pearl is fished in the Channel of Setin, near to Zeilan, where they use flat-bottome boats, called Tune, because they have little bottome.
1755. Monitor, No. 16 (1756), I. 141. Frighted out of their senses with scarecrows, invasions, flat-bottom-boats, &c.
1884. Pall Mall G., 11 Sept., 11/1. A flat-bottom pontoon, divided into … watertight sections.
