RIVER BOAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does river boat mean? 

• RIVER BOAT (noun)
  The noun RIVER BOAT has 1 sense:

1. a boat used on rivers or to ply a river

  Familiarity information: RIVER BOAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIVER BOAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boat used on rivers or to ply a river

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("river boat" is a kind of...):

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "river boat"):

keelboat (river boat with a shallow draught and a keel but no sails; used to carry freight; moved by rowing or punting or towing)

showboat (a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the Mississippi River))

 Context examples 

I don't know what is inside this envelope, but, unless it is something pretty definite, I shall be much tempted to take the next down-river boat and catch the Bolivia at Para.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)