[
US
/ˈhaʊsˌboʊt/
]
[ UK /hˈaʊsbəʊt/ ]
[ UK /hˈaʊsbəʊt/ ]
NOUN
- a barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling
How To Use houseboat In A Sentence
- A motor boat heading to Teddington was travelling so fast that a houseboat was damaged by its wash and the driver was this week cautioned by the Port of London Authority.
- A little later the houseboat was rubbing along the grassy bank, and the water was so deep close to shore that there was really no need of putting out the board, called the "gangplank," for any one to get off. The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat
- The footsteps of the three who'd emerged from the neighbouring houseboat were heavy and quick on the planking, only yards away now -- THE LAST RAVEN
- The development includes a 120 room hotel, a nine-storey tower of apartments and a harbour for houseboats and speedboats.
- This problem may not be confined to houseboats since any boat with the generator exhaust located between the transom and a swim platform could present the same lethal hazard.
- Then a houseboat will take us to the waterfalls just where they float in the river.
- Kate also bedevils her hunky D.A. ex-husband Michael Trucco Battlestar Galactica, when she isn't bedding him on the houseboat where she lives. Roush Review: A Thursday Logjam
- Full houseboats and hotels, jam-packed restaurants and dhabas and a ubiquitous traffic jam even at nine at night suggest that Kashmir has not lost its glory.
- Houseboating on Lake Powell, in the middle of the Great American Desert, is a totally different experience so we dutifully followed the dockhand's instructions on anchoring our boat - ‘Use a shovel,’ he said.
- Austin professes reluctance to talk about “other folks business” but notes that a houseboat similar to Gore’s will cost between $500,000 to a million dollars. AlGore Gets A New Toy