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Definition of Houseboat
1. Noun. A barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling.
Definition of Houseboat
1. Noun. (nautical) a vessel, such as a barge, used as a dwelling ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Houseboat
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Houseboat
Literary usage of Houseboat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law Relating to Waters, Sea, Tidal, and Inland: Including Rights and by Henry John Wastell Coulson, Urquhart Atwell Forbes (1902)
"Every person applying to the Conservators for registration of a houseboat shall
furnish to the Conservators in writing upon a form to be obtained at the ..."
2. The Spell of China by Archie Bell (1917)
"Perhaps Shanghai is the best city from which to embark upon the houseboat excursion,
because the river there abounds in luxuriously appointed little craft ..."
3. America at the Front by Fullerton Leonard Waldo (1918)
"CHAPTER III A houseboat ON THE THAMES: AN INTERLUDE ON a quiet reach of the Thames
my friend's houseboat is tethered to two posts—as if it never meant to go ..."
4. Our Summer in the Vale of Kashmir by Frederick Ward Denys (1915)
"The selection of the houseboat by no means concludes one's living arrangements,
unless by chance he has selected one that is a combination of houseboat and ..."
5. Shooting in China by Thomas R. Jernigan (1908)
"houseboat-GUN-DOG. In the view that comfortable steamers are running on the
principal waterways of China and travel by rail is annually more convenient, ..."
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