flattie

A flattie spider, generally in the family Selenopidae, so called because of its flattened, sprawling shape.

A flat white (a type of coffee).

A flat marinated cut of meat.

a chicken flattie

A flat store.

All the rube had to do was throw a baseball into a barrel and get a prize. How hard could that be? But the barrel was rigged with a false bottom as resilient as a trampoline so that a ball thrown from the specified distance invariably bounced out. Not everything was a flattie.

A flat-bottomed sloop-rigged sharpie.

Flatties were in use on Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds of North Carolina, employed for shoal water fishing and trapping and usually manned by black boatmen ... no duck-hunting or use of guns was allowed by the local white men.

This is the "flattie" model of this skiff — there was also a V-bottomed version similar to the m odified sharpie of Figure 6-4.