canallern.
/kəˈnalə/, U.S. /kəˈnælər/ colloquial.
1. A worker or traveller on a canal; a person who lives or works on a canal boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > who sails in specific waters
channeller?1574
coaster1574
shore-creeper1599
riverman1612
circumnavigator1770
canaller1796
laker1838
river runner1913
1796 H. More Two Wealthy Farmers: Pt. 5 2 Those who were concerned in Canals, sought the company of other Canallers.
1864 T. L. Nichols 40 Years Amer. Life I. xii. 133 Steamboat men, sailors, canallers.
1884 San Francisco Chron. Aug. The ‘canaler's’ family is seen on deck.
1913 Country Gentleman 31 May 848/1 Investigation shows that the old canaller is right..as to the transportation evolution now in progress.
1984 N.Y. Times 8 Aug. 1 Mr. Hatch is a canaller.
2013 Public Opinion (Nexis) 21 Aug. The National Park Service invites those with a relative who was a canaller or those who knows [sic] of someone who worked on the canal or boats to come share their story.
2. Chiefly U.S. A canal boat. Somewhat rare.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > canal boat
trekschuit1696
canal boat1770
narrowboat1836
fly-boat1841
monkey boat1885
canaller1887
1887 Cent. Mag. Aug. 487 Near the bow of each canaler was a lantern.
1958 Brandon (Manitoba) Daily Sun 31 Dec. 17/1 Many of the old canallers with gross tonnage of 3,000, beam of 43 feet and length of about 250 feet may vanish.
2002 Beaver Aug. 40/1 Canadian and British shipyards built long, narrow vessels they named canallers that carried Prairie grain from Thunder Bay and a gamut of goods westward.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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