narrow boat

noun

a long narrow bargelike boat with a beam of 2.1 m (7 ft) or less, used on canals

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How to use narrow boat in a sentence

A narrow boat, now concealed from view by the dense growth of rushes, had brought her to the spot.
Arachne, Complete | Georg Ebers
The long, narrow boat was lowered with half her crew in her.
Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 | James Barnes
Sandal, san′dal, n. a long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) | Various
Weary of sitting in the narrow boat, he stood up, but he could not stretch himself sufficiently for the change to be of much use.
After London | Richard Jefferies
A man, sitting at the stern of a long narrow boat, steers her with a paddle to the middle of a river, and there stops.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art | Various

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