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Use "flatboats" in a sentence
"Some residents used flatboats to motor to submerged homes and salvage items."
"Wagons were not regulated out of existence, nor were buggys before them or wheelwrights or flatboats."
"The rivers are dirty with sweat and toil and lip, like lakes, along the low and burdened shores; flatboats ramble and thread among them, and above the steamers bridges swing on great arches of steel, striding with mighty grace from shore to shore."