society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > canal boat > towed by man or horses (2)
a paddle boat in which the power is supplied by a team of horses turning a treadmill, capstan, etc.; cf. horse-boat, n. 2.
(a) a boat propelled by pulling on a rope; (b) U.S. regional (chiefly southern), a flat-bottomed boat with a small engine, used for pulling logs…