canaller

[ kuh-nal-er, -naw-ler ]

noun

1. a freight boat built for use on canals.
2. a worker on a canal boat, especially one that formerly plied the Erie Canal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of canaller¹

First recorded in 1860–65; canal + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The propeller blades of a good canaller will move twelve to fifteen miles, in their line of spiral movement, to get two to three miles headway for the boat.

From Project Gutenberg

Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the Canaller would make a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly and picturesquely wicked is he.

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The brigandish guise which the Canaller so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his grand features.

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Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the Canaller would make a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly and picturesquely wicked is he.

From Project Gutenberg

The brigandish guise which the Canaller so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his grand features.

From Project Gutenberg