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radeau
[ ruh-doh ]
noun
, plural ra·deaux [r, uh, -, doh, -, dohz].
- an armed scow, variously rigged, used as a floating battery during the American Revolution.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of radeau1
1750–60; < French: raft < Provençal radel < Vulgar Latin *ratellus, diminutive of Latin ratis raft
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Example Sentences
He therefore judged it necessary to build a brigantine, a radeau, and a sloop of 16 guns.
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A raft called the Invincible Radeau, which carried nine twelve-pounders, led the army, and the Halifax sloop brought up the rear.
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In this statement the radeau and gondola have not been included, because of their unmanageableness.
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The radeau had six 24-pounders, six 12's, and two howitzers; the gondola, seven 9-pounders.
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Then three vessels under sail, and one at anchor above Split Rock, and behind it the radeau, Thunderer.
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