ADJECTIVE
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of vessels whose keel is not far below the waterline
a shallow-draft river boat
How To Use shallow-draught In A Sentence
- If this is correct, it implies that the harbour was still capable of taking trading shipping at a useful volume, at least for shallow-draughted ships like those used by the Norsemen, until at least the tenth century. Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure
- A functioning harbour, at least for shallow-draughted vessels; Archive 2009-06-01
- I would think that ships probably were a factor in logistics, on the logic that this was the case in the better-documented later Norse wars, and seventh-century ships were also shallow-draughted and capable of shifting men and supplies long distances by sea and navigable river. Early medieval armies: numbers
