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Canal boat   /kənˈæl boʊt/   Listen
noun
Canal  n.  
1.
An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.
2.
(Anat.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.
3.
A long and relatively narrow arm of the sea, approximately uniform in width; used chiefly in proper names; as, Portland Canal; Lynn Canal. (Alaska)
Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal.
Canal lock. See Lock.





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"Canal boat" Quotes from Famous Books



... become clearly apparent. Boats were placed upon the Erie Canal as fast as the different levels were ready for use, and set to work in active transportation. They were small affairs compared with those of the present day, being about 50 or 60 tons burden, the modern canal boat being 180 or 200 tons. Small as they were, they reduced the cost of transportation immediately to one-tenth what it had been before. A ton of freight by land from Buffalo to Albany cost at that time $100. When the canal was open its entire length, the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 • Various
... the 'Water Witch' and row along the river all summer, sleeping in hotels and boarding-places at night. But I know we must have a chaperon; and meals and things would make it cost too much. Then it occurred to me that we could get a boat big enough to live in by day and sleep in by night—a canal boat, or something——" ...
— Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid • Amy D. V. Chalmers
... I must be in the canal boat on Sunday; but I'll go and breakfast with you to-morrow, on my way to Bill Mooney's, who has a fine lot of pigs to sell—remarkable ...
— Handy Andy, Volume One - A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes • Samuel Lover


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