[
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
- But what galvanized education and research efforts to a more urgent level was the discovery in 2000 that many houseboats were built with a fatal flaw.
- Another preventative measure has been warning labels and transom placards, particularly on rental houseboats commonly used by less experienced boaters.
- Although I didn't want to be a spoilsport, I secretly wondered how much of that we'd really find, given that 450 rental houseboats cruise the lake, along with noisy jet skis and countless private boats.
- He did, of course, silently cursing himself for walking into the trap at Alan's houseboat. THE LAST RAVEN
- In the hungry light of the houseboat he could see the fiery ravishment of her legs and belly; he could smell the other man, and her devourment of him. Tours of the Black Clock
- The highest of the spring tides might wash up all around the houseboat but it would never float again.
- Houseboats and expensive terraced villas line the waterway, while well-heeled ladies take yappy canine triplets for walkies along the towpath.
- a simplex word has no affixes and is not part of a compound--like `boy' compared with `boyish' or `house' compared with `houseboat'
- Here a fleet of sedate houseboats lies moored in permanent residence.
- A friend met me at the Ocean River Sports dock at noon; 30 minutes later, we crossed the runway and bee-lined for Fisherman's Wharf, a klatch of pastel-colored houseboats and floating restaurants on the edge of the Inner Harbour. Victoria, By Sea