scow

synonyms for scow

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Here the “c” is hard and represents 7, and as the steamboat could easily outrun the “scow,” the phrase is easily remembered.

ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)

It was an ancient scow, housed over, and evidently had grown venerable in service as a floating fish-market.

See him as he journeys down the Yukon in a scow loaded with lumber for a mission building.

Footnote 23: A batteau is a kind of scow or flat-boat, used on shallow streams like the Hudson above Waterford.

I do not remember the embarking on the great scow for our trip down the Columbia to the Cascades.

Taking my little dory that we had with us on the scow, I rowed to the largest steamer lying at anchor.

Under Mop's direction the old scow gradually made its way toward the big stub.

THE MAJORRALPH CONNOR

I'm gittin' weary o' bein' ordered off your dirty little scow an' then bein' invited back agin.

The sail was then lowered, and by slow degrees the scow drifted up to the building, and was secured.

THE DEERSLAYERJAMES FENIMORE COOPER

This was a long, heavy, flat bottomed scow, of primitive but enormously strong construction.

THE BOSS OF WIND RIVERDAVID GOODGER (GOODGER@PYTHON.ORG)

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985