river boat

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   a boat used on rivers or to ply a river

   Broaderboat

   Narrowerkeelboatshowboat

Questions about river boat

What does river boat mean?

river boat means "a boat used on rivers or to ply a river".

Is river boat a common word?

river 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.