WordNet
river boat
n. a boat used on rivers or to ply a river
Usage examples of "river boat".
She was an upper river boat, built small and narrow and low for the shallow tight streams where she had to ply her trade.
Whipple had a river boat waiting and herded his charges directly aboard.
In December of that year he had guided his bateau back to Jamestown with a heavy cargo of corn, beaver, sassafras and caviar, and as he was unloading onto a two-masted ship from London, he found that a crude river boat from somewhere up the James was unloading on the opposite side of the trader.
Returning to the riverbank, Tommy peered through the eyepiece of the camera and aimed it through the camouflaging willow thicket, twisting the focusing ring to bring the river boat into needle-sharp definition.