DCHP-1 Online

flat † (often plural)

• 1 n. the level, low-lying land bordering a stream; interval.

  See also: bottom ((n.))  mud-flat  

  • 1765-75  (1933)  Earley in the Morning the wind took the Canew up in the Air--Leat hir fall on the frozen flat and Broke hir to Pecis.
  • 1832  (1953)  A creek or small river winding nearly through its entire length, between rich flats, as they are here called. . . .
  • 1908  A long hill leads down to the flat, and from its brow we had a striking view of the . . . noble river. . . .
  • 1963  . . . their wanderings took them over the old trails . . . to the flats above the Thompson River. . . .

• 2 n. Maritimes a small flat-bottomed boat used for fishing near shore.

  • 1954  . . . his eyes would be alert for . . . a white pine to watch and hoard until it was big enough to be sawed and planned into planking for a lap-seam flat.
  • 1954  . . . Lon rowed the flat ashore and he and Anse brailed up the canvas.