canal boat

English

Noun

canal boat (plural canal boats)

  1. (shipbuilding) A long, narrow boat designed to travel on canals.
    • 1988, Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Letters of T.S. Eliot: 1898-1922, page 63:
      As the canal boat carries him westward up the Erie he turns and gazes at the Statue of Liberty disappearing on the horizon (not strictly accurate geography, but a fine scene).
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