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batteau

Bateau \Ba*teau"\, n.; pl. Bateaux. [F. bateau, LL. batellus, fr. battus, batus, boat, which agrees with AS. b[=a]t boat: cf. W. bad boat. See Boat, n.] A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. [Written also, but less properly, batteau.]

Bateau bridge, a floating bridge supported by bateaux.

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batteau

n. (alternative form of bateau English)

Usage examples of "batteau".

They had built three or four skiffs, one small batteau, and a couple of canoes.

She fumbled with her Batteau breather mask, making it snug over her face.

The goods destined for this wide and wandering traffic were put up at the warehouses of the company in Montreal, and conveyed in batteaux, or boats and canoes, up the river Attawa, or Ottowa, which falls into the St.