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canal boat

British  

noun

  1. a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Next week, retired bus driver, Carol Jackson, 66, from West Sussex, and her husband, Chris, are due to begin a "dream trip" - sailing their canal boat through France and Spain to Portugal.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2022

Life on a rustic canal boat is not all romance.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021

Wakeman’s family was in debt, and she was working on a canal boat when the war broke out.

From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2017

Then-state legislator Ralph Regula and the late Al Simpson, a longtime editor at The Canton Repository, wanted to know if the club members were up for the challenge of building the first canal boat replica.

From Washington Times • Apr. 22, 2017

Newcomers keep arriving—by ship, canal boat, and stagecoach.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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