Scow
[skaʊ]
Definition
(noun.) a barge carrying bulk materials in an open hold.
(noun.) any of various flat-bottomed boats with sloping ends.
Edited by Carlos--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
(v. t.) To transport in a scow.
Checker: Lorrie
Definition
n. a flat-bottomed boat: a ferry-boat.
Inputed by Cherie
Examples
- Scow Life in Egypt, by the same author. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- One described it as an ungainly craft looking precisely like a backwoods sawmill mounted on a scow and set on fire. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Traction is then made on the chains controlling the jaws, which close; the grapple is hoisted to the surface and its contents discharged into scows alongside the dredge. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Burnside had stretched a boom across the Holston River to catch scows and flats as they floated down. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is a great historical creek with four feet in the channel and some scows floating around. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Inputed by Carter