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- n. Plural form of narrowboat.
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“A must-see for canal boat fans, it has many historic narrowboats moored in the basin.”
“Some of her tasks include clearing the canals of invasive weeds, helping to ensure the survival of wildlife, and helping barges and narrowboats through the many locks in her region.”
“In its heyday, Limehouse Basin was a working dock, a place of intense activity as foreign cargoes were unloaded on to narrowboats and transported to the north.”
“Rising abruptly from the plain and its hobbity world of thatch and narrowboats, Beeston Castle is every warlike child's dream.”
“And one of my strongest memories of those days - it can only date from 1969 and 1970 - is the Fellows, Morton & Clayton narrowboats that still carried cargo along the Grand Union.”
“Dozens of men trudged along the towpath — a small road alongside the canal — pulling the four barges and two narrowboats that made up their convoy.”
“At worst, my narrowboats would stop running, and you would have to find other merchants to deal with.”
“In a psychedelic way it reminded Nancy of the layout of the narrowboats her parents had hired for canal holidays when she was a child.”
“Others are seeking support, or hard cash, to lift their narrowboats out of decades of disrepair.”
“There are more than 2,000 narrowboats moored on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.”
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