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- noun nautical A
ship , normally moored alongside a quay, used as ahotel
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Examples
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Hockaday, an artist, conceived her "boatel" as a project for Flux Factory, a Queens-based art gallery.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The ship Hermes on the Vltava river which serves as a boatel for homeless people, offering shelter for a symbolic 20 crowns, has announced that in the course of the coming days it will take in homeless people free of charge and increase its capacity to 250 beds.
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The authorities have urged people not to underestimate the risk and a boatel for the homeless on the Vltava river said it still had around 50 vacancies a night.
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The authorities have urged people not to underestimate the risk and a boatel for the homeless on the Vltava river said it still had around 50 vacancies a night.
trivet commented on the word boatel
Not just a boat, not just a hotel...
See here or here.
September 17, 2007
reesetee commented on the word boatel
Good grief.
September 17, 2007
uselessness commented on the word boatel
Do they sell these on eBay?
September 17, 2007
trivet commented on the word boatel
Why, yes.
September 18, 2007
uselessness commented on the word boatel
And I can buy it now for only $2.99! What a steal!!
....waitaminute....
September 18, 2007
reesetee commented on the word boatel
Oh, but imagine the shipping & handling....
September 18, 2007
bilby commented on the word boatel
Shipping's $1.50.
July 31, 2008
reesetee commented on the word boatel
Yes, it is. For a postcard!
July 31, 2008
dontcry commented on the word boatel
We kept our boat at a marina with a boatel -- but that referred to the giant shelves they stacked the boats on when they weren't in the water. When you wanted to use your boat, you called ahead and they put this monstrous forklift under your boat, lifted it off it's resting place on the shelf and placed it in the water! The boatel kept the bottom of your boat in good shape as it wasn't sitting in the water 24/7.
July 31, 2008
reesetee commented on the word boatel
Yep, my pals had the same arrangment with their speedboat. I was always glad I never owned one of the boats on the fourth (and top) shelf. Nerve-wracking watching them unshelve it.
July 31, 2008
plethora commented on the word boatel
It's a postcard... surely they could just put a fifty cent stamp on it, address it and mail it to you...
July 31, 2008
reesetee commented on the word boatel
Not possible, apparently, because it's "vintage." :-P
July 31, 2008