Definitions for radeau

radeau ra·deau

Spelling: [ruh-doh]
IPA: /rəˈdoʊ/

Radeau is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in radeau (aaderu).

Definitions for radeau

noun

  1. an armed scow, variously rigged, used as a floating battery during the American Revolution.

Origin of radeau

1750-60; French: raft Provençal radel Vulgar Latin *ratellus, diminutive of Latin ratis raft

Examples for radeau

He therefore judged it necessary to build a brigantine, a radeau, and a sloop of 16 guns.

Then three vessels under sail, and one at anchor above Split Rock, and behind it the radeau, Thunderer.

The radeau had six 24-pounders, six 12's, and two howitzers; the gondola, seven 9-pounders.

In this statement the radeau and gondola have not been included, because of their unmanageableness.

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