narrow boat

1. 1.

   a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals

   Synonymscanal boatnarrowboat

   Broaderboat

Questions about narrow boat

What does narrow boat mean?

narrow boat means "a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals".

What is another word for narrow boat?

Close synonyms include canal boat, narrowboat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is narrow boat a common word?

narrow boat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.