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French river craft
Answer for the clue "French river craft ", 6 letters:
bateau
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
French-Canadian river boat, 1711, from French bateau , from Old French batel , from Germanic (see boat (n.)).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bateau (born 1925) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse and a daughter of Man o' War and out of the French mare Escuina. In the Schuylerville Purse run at Saratoga Springs in late July 1927, the filly placed second to Pennant Queen. She ran in ...
Usage examples of bateau.
Again Tehei broached Samoa, and again my petit bateau brought the disappointment and the smile of acquiescence to his face.
Iain sent Morgan into the fort to make a full report to Wentworth, while he bore Annie across the bateau bridge to the island that served as Ranger camp.
William had immediately sent troops across the bateau bridge to warn them that any insurrection would be dealt with swiftly and severely.
In the distance, she saw several on the river fishing, while two more crossed the bateau bridge, carrying a slain deer on a pole between them.
They treated her with respect and kindness, stacking firewood outside her door, fetching water for her, escorting her across the bateau bridge.
She never set foot across the bateau bridge without a Ranger shadowing her.
A small, flat-bottomed green-anodized aluminum bateau approached from a side channel, the harsh drone of its outboard motor enough to shoo the diving pelican away.
He waved at the green bateau, then pointed at the bayou with a sideways nod.
Michaels cast off the rope as Gridley climbed down into the bateau and started the outboard motor.
Sergeant Dunham carried off his command in a large bateau, and then returned for his final orders, and to see that his brother-in-law and daughter were properly attended to.
To the north he saw a fleet of six ships and a dozen bateaux gliding southward toward Ticonderoga.
Several skiffs, bateaux, and canoes were hauled up on the shore, and in the cove itself lay the little craft from which Jasper obtained his claim to be considered a sailor.
Then, suddenly, there slid from under the Bridge of Kisses a bateau heaped with rutabagas and mangelwurzels, poled along by a solitary muzhik, and the ice crackled and broke as the boat plowed through it.
American stock who were the pioneers of the axe and the rifle, succeeding the French pioneers of the sword and the bateaux.
Campbell's calling upon the Governor to return his thanks, the latter told him that there would be plenty of room in the bateaux and canoes for them and all their luggage, and that he need not give himself further trouble, or incur any further expense.