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Definition of Narrow boat
1. Noun. A long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Narrow Boat
Literary usage of Narrow boat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Make the Railways Pay for the War; Or, The Transport Problem Solved by Roy Horniman (1916)
"Nothing but a narrow boat can navigate between London and Northampton, London
and Leicester, ... If we attempt to take our narrow boat from London to Leeds, ..."
2. The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things by John Denison Champlin (1884)
"The barge is a long, narrow boat used by the principal officers in going to and from
... The wherry is a light, long, and narrow boat, sharp at both ends, ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"A man sitting in the stern of a long, narrow boat, steers her with a paddle to
the middle of a river, and there stops. Along the right-hand side of his boat ..."
4. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"... ring is about six miles ; it bears ten palm-covered islets, of which several
are inhabited, and has one narrow boat-passage leading into the lagoon. ..."
5. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"The barge is a long, light, narrow boat, employed in harbors, ... A gig is a
long, narrow boat, used for expedition, and rowed with six or eight oars. ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1830)
"The barg-e is a long, light, narrow boat, employed in harbors, ... A gig ¡sa
long, narrow boat, used for expedition, and rowed with six or eight oars. ..."
7. The Mining Engineer (1908)
"If an attempt be made to take a narrow boat from London to Leeds, it will
fa.il altogether, as it will be stopped at either Wigan, Sowerby Bridge, ..."
8. Great Lakes Pilot...1921 by United States Hydrographic Office (1921)
"... is the western of the string of islands lying north of Aird Island, being
separated from the western portion of the latter by a narrow boat passage. ..."
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