batteau

American  

[ba-toh, ba-toh] / bæˈtoʊ, baˈtoʊ /

noun

Nautical.

plural

batteaux

1. bateau.

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Example Sentences

The batteau was too cumbrous for use toward the head waters of the Missouri, and it was to be sent back to St. Louis.

From Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark by Lighton, William R. (William Rheem)

After several vain attempts to understand each other, she laughed and turned on her heel, and I followed the call of the padrone to the batteau.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

There was water enough to have swamped a batteau, but against a raft the comber had knocked its head off for nothing.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

As the batteau drifted around the point, Monkey Rae, who had been the first to get aboard and conceal himself, rose, and putting his fingers to his nose, shouted back some insulting epithets.

From The Boy Scouts on the Yukon by Mencl, Rudolf

Years ago he was in a Hudson Bay Company batteau which capsized in these very rapids, and out of a crew of sixteen men eight perished in the water or on the rocks.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)