shallow-draft

1. 1.

   of vessels whose keel is not far below the waterline

   “a shallow-draft river boat”

   Synonymsshallow-draught

Questions about shallow-draft

What does shallow-draft mean?

shallow-draft means "of vessels whose keel is not far below the waterline".

How many syllables are in shallow-draft?

shallow-draft has 3 syllables: shal-low--draft. The stress falls on "shal".

What is another word for shallow-draft?

Close synonyms include shallow-draught. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shallow-draft a common word?

shallow-draft is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.