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What is the difference between flatboat and moses?

flatboat | moses |

As nouns the difference between flatboat and moses

is that flatboat is a boxy, flat-bottomed boat used for carrying livestock, freight, and people on rivers while Moses is a large flatboat used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.

As a proper noun Moses is

the pharaonic patriarch who led the slaved Jews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.

flatboat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A boxy, flat-bottomed boat used for carrying livestock, freight, and people on rivers.
  • See also

    * barge

    moses

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The pharaonic patriarch who led the slaved Jews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.
  • * :
  • And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses' up to the top of the mount; and ' Moses went up.
  • * 1952 (w, Singin' in the Rain): Moses supposes (a song):
  • Moses' supposes his toeses are roses, / But '''Moses''' supposes erroneously, / '''Moses''' he knowses his toeses aren't roses, / As ' Moses supposes his toeses to be!
  • .
  • A dialect of the Columbia-Wenatchi language
  • Derived terms

    * Moses basket

    Noun

  • A large flatboat used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.
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