canal boat
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3.2
- noun
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barco de canal
- Two hours later, some bamboo planks across a bunch of wooden canal boats and there's foot traffic again.
Examples
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The rope spinner was always followed by another person who would weave the cords together to form the thick rope that was so important to the canal boat traffic.
Fiction book (1990) -
A canal boat.
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I, I, I rented a canal boat, which is, which is a, is a funny story, is it?
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I don't reckon I could live on a canal boat.
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Well, so that's most probably a canal boat barge, right?
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For example, a group of men sometimes decided to go floating in a canal boat along the Kamo River to sip sake and dangle their feet in the water.
Fiction book (1997) -
That likelihood, though, does nothing to counter the point central to last week's post: that in a world with much less energy, older and more energy-efficient transport methods such as canal boats may turn out to be much more economically viable.
Blog text (25) -
During his journey from New Hampshire, he chanced to meet Martin Harris, a convert to the new faith on a canal boat, from whom he gained much information that only intensified his anxiety to see the prophet.
Blog text (6) -
Take the canal boats through the Kerala estuaries, lay around on the Goa coast for a while, ride the steamer up to Bombay, and stay in the Taj Hotel.
Fiction book (1993) -
The tourists enjoyed a relaxing cruise on a bright blue canal boat through the scenic waterways.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small vehicle used on water to carry people, like a rowboat or motorboat
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3.3
A large boat or ship used for travel on water
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3.9
A large flat boat that carries heavy goods on rivers or canals
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9.4
A small ship that carries mail on a regular route
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9.9
A flat-bottomed boat used to carry heavy loads on canals
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8.1
A long boat with a flat bottom and square ends used to carry heavy loads on rivers
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7.5
A boat that carries mail and sometimes people and goods on a regular route
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3.4
A strong boat built to carry goods, equipment, or people for tasks at sea
A long, thin boat that travels on canals and carries people or goods
A long, thin boat used on canals to carry goods
How Narrow
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'canal' (an engineered water channel) + 'boat' (a small craft); the noun–noun compound straightforwardly denotes a boat used on canals. This is a common, literal formation cross-linguistically and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The name canal boat comes from the literal parts canal and boat. It describes a long, narrow boat made to move along a canal and carry goods or people, so today 'canal boat' means a boat used on canals.