houseboat
noun
a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
houseboater
-
a word derived from
houseboat.
Example Sentences
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What, exactly, does our nation’s most famous houseboater really want?
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2022
Battle of Point Pleasant—The story of Gallipolis—Rosebud—Huntington—The genesis of a houseboater.
From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Reuben Gold Thwaites
That word "harbour" comes to mean a good deal to the houseboater who attempts to make a cruiser of his unseaworthy, lubberly craft.
From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Frank W. Hutchins
But to the true houseboater there is a charm in it all.
From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Frank W. Hutchins
Then too the houseboater is usually quite a landlubber after all; so that even if the boat is strong enough to meet an angry sea, the owner's stomach is not.
From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Frank W. Hutchins
