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canal boat

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canal boat
n
(Mathematics & Measurements / Navigation) a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
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Noun1.canal boatcanal boat - a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals
narrow boat, narrowboat
boat - a small vessel for travel on water


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It still continued to rain heavily, and when we went down to the Canal Boat (for that was the mode of conveyance by which we were to proceed) after dinner, the weather was as unpromising and obstinately wet as one would desire to see.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
The famous regiment, with so many of whose officers we have made acquaintance, was drafted in canal boats to Bruges and Ghent, thence to march to Brussels.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
Them canal boats is what you may call the wooden walls of England.
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