Crossword clues for narrow boat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. a long narrow boat used on canals to carry freight [syn: canal boat, narrowboat]
Wikipedia
Narrow Boat is a book about life on the English canals written by L. T. C. Rolt. Originally published in 1944, it has continuously been in print since.
It describes a four-month trip that Rolt took with his bride Angela at the outbreak of the Second World War. The book is credited with a revival of interest in the English canals, leading directly to the creation of the Inland Waterways Association which spearheaded the restoration and leisure use of the canals.
Usage examples of "narrow boat".
Now this rock it has met has been a long and narrow boat, manned by six or eight men, who have surprised and plundered it, some dark and stormy night, near some desert and gloomy island, as bandits plunder a carriage in the recesses of a forest.
The narrow boat eased through the tributaries, no longer black water but golden, camouflaged - reflecting the low sunlight - just like that French cricket Garrett had told her about.
One long, narrow boat that must have had twenty to a side looked like a hundred-legs skittering along.
Individual quarters were a luxury afforded to few on a small, narrow boat built for speed.
The narrow boat slipped farther into the unknown, slowly skimming the water as the oarsmen dipped and pulled them forward.
Smaller ships still, mastless like the boat she was on, with a high sharp peak at the front and a low flat house at the back, spidered across the water on oars, one pair or two, or sometimes three/One long, narrow boat that must have had twenty to a side looked like a hundred-legs skittering along.
A narrow boat with graceful lines, the skiff moved smoothly with little exertion on their part.
With that Jannit was off to the pontoon to meet a long narrow boat piled high with boxes and baskets.
A narrow boat with sides, resembling a canoe, squeezed by the raft going the opposite direction.
I had already moved as far from him as I could in the narrow boat.
He shoved the cigarette boat's throttles ahead, and the powerful engines all but stood the narrow boat on its stern.
Expanding his narrow chest as much as possible (his tie bobbed like a narrow boat riding a mild wave), he huffed into it and blew it up.