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Shallow-draft   /ʃˈæloʊ-dræft/   Listen
Shallow-draft

adjective
1.
Of vessels whose keel is not far below the waterline.  Synonym: shallow-draught.






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... sand-bank. And in the foreground, against a disused Hard that was a couple of hundred yards lower down than the village Hard, a large white yacht was moored, probably the largest yacht that had ever threaded that ticklish navigation. She was a shallow-draft barge-yacht, rigged like a Thames barge, and her whiteness and the glint of her brass, and the flicker of her ensign at the stern were dazzling. Blue figures ran busily about on her, and a white-and-blue person in a peaked cap stood ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett



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