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
Scotty, using Jerry's car, would locate the houseboater at the pier.
From The Electronic Mind Reader by John Blaine
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
