durham boat

durham boat
noun
Usage: usually capitalized D
Etymology: after Robert Durham, 18th century American boat builder
: a long narrow flat-bottomed boat used to transport freight on the rivers of No. America in the 18th and early 19th centuries

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Durham boat,
a long, narrow kind of keelboat used on North American rivers in the 1700's and 1800's.
[probably < Robert Durham, a Pennsylvania boat builder of the 1700's]

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