johnboat

English

A small johnboat in the back of a pickup truck

Alternative forms

• jon boat

Noun

johnboat (plural johnboats)

1. a flat-bottomed boat with a very shallow draft, whose bow and stern are both squared off

   Eddie liked to take his johnboat into the shallow, reedy, sandbars that the out-of-town fishermen, with their big, expensive, fiberglass bassboats, couldn't reach.

Translations

flat-bottomed boat

• Russian: плоскодо́нка (ru) f (ploskodónka), джо́нбот m (džónbot)