narrowboat
IPA: nˈɛroʊboʊt
noun
- A barge used on the narrow canals of England.
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Examples of "narrowboat" in Sentences
- Captins narrowboat, his Ferret, nodded gently at its mooring.
- People who run narrowboat firms along the canal fear turnover will be hit.
- In fact, I spent part of my time on our narrowboat, and the rest here in my
- It's Zazou Cafe, the eatery on a narrowboat, according to Edinburgh Spotlight.
- To help work the locks, you need one other person; single-handing a narrowboat is hell.
- Hire a narrowboat and tour the North of England where the Industrial Revolution kick-started the modern world.
- Kelsier burned pewter, strengthening his body as he thumped to the deck of the narrowboat leading the caravan.
- She and her husband live part-time on a tiny smallholding in the hills of Ceredigion, West Wales, and part-time on a narrowboat on the Grand Union Canal in London, where much of The Earth Hums in B Flat was written.
- A rented "narrowboat" is a skinny, low-ceilinged, fully furnished floating apartment, surprisingly easy to handle on the water and perfectly comfortable for a couple, or two couples, and their children, to live aboard.
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