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narrow boat

noun

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

A narrow boat, now concealed from view by the dense growth of rushes, had brought her to the spot.

The long, narrow boat was lowered with half her crew in her.

Sandal, san′dal, n. a long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast.

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.

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.

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