Scow

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  • noun. A large flatbottom boat with square ends, used chiefly for transporting freight.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
  • transitive verb. To transport in a scow.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
  • verb. To transport in a scow.
    • 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
    • Word Usage
    "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."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    barge  boat  flatboat  hoy  lighter  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bilbao  Bow  Chao  Chow  Dow  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    barge  ferryboat  fishing-boat  fragata  houseboat  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lighter  punt  
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