houseboat
(haʊsboʊt )
Word forms: houseboats
countable noun
A houseboat is a small boat on a river or canal which people live in.
Each plot was occupied by a houseboat.
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Collocations:
houseboat owner
He was also an accomplished book designer, small press publisher, biker, houseboat owner, pianist, archivist and social historian.
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Moorings are owned by freeholders and the leases that houseboat owners can buy vary from six months to 100 years.
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The strangers' kindness perhaps explains the unexpected benevolence shown by the chancellor to houseboat owners as he exempted them from his rise in stamp duty tax bands.
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