Crossword clues for houseboat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
houseboat \houseboat\ n. a barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) A vessel, such as a barge, used as a dwelling.
WordNet
n. a barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling
Wikipedia
A houseboat (different from boathouse, which is a shed for storing boats) is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily as a home. Some houseboats are not motorized, because they are usually moored, kept stationary at a fixed point and often tethered to land to provide utilities. However, many are capable of operation under their own power. Float house is a Canadian and U.S. term for a house on a float (raft), a rough house may be called a shanty boat.
Houseboat is a 1958 Technicolor romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert, and Mimi Gibson. The movie was directed by Melville Shavelson, who also directed the original version of Yours, Mine and Ours (1968). The love theme "Almost In Your Arms", sung by Sam Cooke and "Bing! Bang! Bong!", sung by Loren, were written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
Usage examples of "houseboat".
It began in 1977 and has been publishing the dreams of Sausahto houseboat community residents and non-residents who dream of the Sausalito waterfront.
The houseboats had only about five feet of freeboard, so even on a quiet day like this waves whacked the bottom of the platform or even washed onto it as the hulls rose and fell on different cycles.
Tunis, when they saw the boats on the far edge of the water, a series of dots moving south: Scandinavian yachts and large Dutch houseboats, ancient Arab dhows and Indian baghlas, Chinese junks and Somalian sambuks.
Experiencing humanity at the gut level, eating every food, curried ants, fried balls, sleeping with women of all races and creeds, living in leaky huts, in igloos, in tents, in houseboats.
Along the bank now, emerging gradually out of the thinning mist, were the rows of ramshackle huts on spidery stilts and the houseboats with tattered washcloths for curtains and the hand sawmills and the floating docks, each with its moored semicircle of sleek longboats radiating outward like elliptical wooden petals.
Jondalar exchanged greetings with several inhabitants of the houseboats as he strode along the lashed logs toward the end of the dock where Thonolan was just getting into one of the boats tied there.
They passed many arks and houseboats of fishermen moored among the tules, and the women and children, like the men in the boats, were dark-skinned, black-eyed, foreign.
He hefted the chainsaw and moved as swiftly as he could toward the houseboat entrance.
Traveling in their refitted Sea King houseboat, the Dhul Fiqar, they had just made the turn toward the facility, traveling at their maximum speed of twelve knots.
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He had sloshed over to my houseboat, the Busted Flush, and told me he had a small problem.
We'd spent the last few weeks aboard my houseboat, the Busted Flush, puttering around Florida Bay and the Keys with a small, convivial, and very active group of old and new friends aboard.
I told Billy Elkhart to work out some kind of fair rent deal with Harry's friend, even though we were offered the houseboat gratis.
At a point about half a mile above the houseboat, the outlines of oil and gas storage tanks loomed back of an old wharf.
High, wispy ferns grew along the canal banks there between elaborately fashioned piers, gazebos, and multitiered docks to which were tied ornate houseboats.