ˈhouse-boat
A boat roofed over and fitted up as a house, for living in permanently or temporarily.
| 1790 G. White Let. in Selborne (1877) II. 175 To enquire what small craft they had on the Rhine, and whether any house-boat. 1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike i, The summer days we spent together on his lordship's house-boat at Henley. 1887 Spectator 9 July 920/2 Summer life in a house-boat on the Thames. |