scow
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8.6
- noun
- /skaʊ/
- Specialized
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- After several hours, the fisherman returned to the dock with his small scow filled with fresh catch.
Examples
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Ferryboats, barges, and garbage scows sliced through the water as muscled tugboats approached to guide the troopship toward her berth in the East River.
Fiction book (1992) -
The workers loaded the cargo onto the large scow for transport along the river.
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Get yourself a work party and clean up this old scow.
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Near the scow, I would arrange a neat place for myself to lie.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm the new science officer on this garbage scow and you are in my seat!
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Danny washed up on the shore near the fish buyer's scow in Lynn Canal.
Fiction book (1997) -
They just put the last teaspoon of coal in the old scow.
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Douglass describes one day offering his help to "two Irishmen" unloading a "scow of stone."
Academic text (1999) -
It seems a mystery woman was picked up by the Elk Cove garbage scow shortly after midnight.
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The next day they tracked Booth to the Rappahannock River, and they shuttled over it on a rude scow that carried eight men and horses at a time.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
57
3.9
A large flat boat that carries heavy goods on rivers or canals
2
7.4
A flat boat that carries trash from harbors or rivers
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8.1
A long boat with a flat bottom and square ends used to carry heavy loads on rivers
A flat-bottomed boat that carries goods on rivers and river mouths
A small shallow boat used to reach shore
Compounds
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Etymology
The word scow comes from the Dutch word schouw, which meant 'boat' and often named a flat, shallow craft used to move goods near shore. So, a scow today is a flat-bottomed boat used to carry sand, gravel or other cargo in shallow water.