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canal boats

canal boats is the plural of canal boat.

Meaning of canal boat

Noun

canal boat (plural canal boats)

  1. A long, narrow boat designed to travel on canals.
    • As the canal boat carries him westward up the Erie he turns and gazes at the Statue of Liberty disappearing on the horizon (not strictly accurate geography, but a fine scene).1988, Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Letters of T.S. Eliot: 1898-1922, page 63

Questions about canal boats

What is canal boats the plural of?
Canal boats is the plural of canal boat.

Words near canal boats in the dictionary

  1. canakinumab
  2. canal
  3. canal basin
  4. canal basins
  5. canal boat
  6. canal boats
  7. canal bridge
  8. canal bridges
  9. canal coal
  10. Canal Foot
  11. canal of Hering

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