Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who navigated a flat-boat: used especially in early river navigation in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.
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Examples
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I doubt the rascal did not come by it very honestly, neither was a costly bracelet that one of my father's best hands (once a Northwich salt-flatman) brought home for my baby sister.
Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian
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Page 269 look after the trunks or locks which shut out the water from the ditches), a cow and sheep-minder, an ostler, a flatman, and a boatman.
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