Glossary entry

Dutch term or phrase:

platbodem boot

English translation:

flat-bottomed boat

Sep 3, 2002 13:51
22 yrs ago
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Dutch term

platbodem

Non-PRO Dutch to English Tech/Engineering coastal water
type of Dutch boot

Proposed translations

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flatboat, flat-bottomed boat

zie ref.

Serge L.
Reference:

van Dale N - E

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flat-bottomed vessel/boat

E.g.:

... for harvesting oysters. Hard-chine, Line of intersections of sides
and bottom of a flat-bottomed vessel or boat. Hawes-pieces, On ...

www.mariner.org/chesapeakebay/waterman/vocab.html
Peer comment(s):

agree Edith Kelly : Never knew that a boot is for sailing in coastal waters.
5 mins
agree Chris Hopley : e.g. a bomschuit - http://www.shetland-museum.org.uk/images/photos/herring_fish...
4 hrs
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