Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large flatbottom boat with square ends, used chiefly for transporting freight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To transport in a scow.
- noun A kind of large flat-bottomed boat used chiefly as a lighter; a pram.
- noun A small boat made of willows, etc., and covered with skins; a ferry-boat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
- transitive verb To transport in a scow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large flat-bottomed
boat , havingbroad , square ends. - verb To transport in a scow.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various flat-bottomed boats with sloping ends
- noun a barge carrying bulk materials in an open hold
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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By the time I was sixteen I was sailing in scow-schooners, fishing salmon with the Greeks up the Sacramento River, and serving as sailor on the Fish Patrol.
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By the time I was sixteen I was sailing in scow-schooners, fishing salmon with the Greeks up the Sacramento River, and serving as sailor on the Fish Patrol.
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By the time I was sixteen I was sailing in scow-schooners, fishing salmon with the Greeks up the Sacramento River, and serving as sailor on the Fish Patrol.
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I was sailing in scow-schooners, fishing salmon with the Greeks up the
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By the time I was sixteen I was sailing in scow-schooners, fishing salmon with the Greeks up the Sacramento River, and serving as sailor on the Fish Patrol.
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He shared his garbage tour with M'Buna, and they spent their time chatting desultorily at the controls of the "scow" -actually a reactionless space tractor-while the garbage pods steered, unloaded, and returned themselves.
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Shooting rapids in a scow is a very different matter from riding through them on a plank.
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Sometimes it is called a scow; but that sounds common.
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As the sides of the scow were a little higher than usual, and the interior of the cabin had no more elevation than was necessary for comfort, this unusual addition had neither a very clumsy nor a very obtrusive appearance.
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At the "scow," as the ferry-boat was called, Peter joined us; he ferried us deftly over the deep and rapid water, and then led on, as rapidly as if it had been daylight, along a path through the pines.
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