One may ask, why a canal boat, for example, should continue to move if the pull of the mule does not exceed the drag of the water; but why should it stop if the drag does not exceed the pull?
Everyone has noticed how a mule strains at his rope when starting a canal boat, especially if the boat is heavily loaded, and how the boat continues to move for a long time after the mule ceases to pull.
Alternatively, would the manufacturers run the risk of delaying urgent work by having the raw materials delivered by canal boatin order to effect a small saving on cost of transport?
The channel is barely wide enough to allow the passage of a single craft and we knew that we must hold the right of way or back out in case we should meet a canal boat.
It was a perilous place to meet a canal boat and we continued on through the blinding storm.
I had passed over but two short lines of railroad, and had made the journey by canal boat, by steamer, by stage, and a large portion of it on foot.
At Schenectady I took passage on a canal boat to Buffalo.
I traveled thence by steamer to Buffalo, by canal boat to Rochester, by railroad and stage to Albany and Boston, by railroad to Lowell, and by stage to Tamworth, New Hampshire.
A canal boat is certainly more staid than an ice-boat, and I went alang with ye on that.
But, speaking seriously, this boat is on the canal, though strictly it is not a canal boat.
And a boat on the canal is a canal boat, is it not?
Please," she asked breathlessly, stepping directly in front of him, "do you know whether any of the people along here would be willing to rent me a canal boat?
On the deck of a canal boat a girl came out with a bundle of clothes in her arms.
Landing in Boston, they went by train to Albany, thence by canal boat to Buffalo, and by steamboat via the lakes to Milwaukee, where they arrived sometime in August.
The inland journey from New York went by steamboat to Albany, thence by canal boat to Buffalo, a distance of three hundred and fifty miles, which usually took twelve days but often over two weeks.
The inland journey, generally in the early days made by canal boat, varied greatly in cost, often amounting to as much as fourteen dollars to Milwaukee or Chicago.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canal boat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
