What is "scow"

Usage examples of "scow".

When dawn came with a heavy mist I woke Ann and went overside to shove the scow off.

The telphers, therefore, were of great advantage where track room and scow berths were limited.

In a moment of self-pity, he saw himself at the helm, middle-aged, potbellied, once the master of a proud fishing boat, now only the whoremaster of a garbage scow.

Arriving at the dock, the buckets were lifted by electrically-operated stiff-leg derricks and their contents deposited on scows for final disposal.

So why were Vatta keeping this old scow, and why was it captained by a Vatta family member?

The cargo scows broke up into thousands of robot-guided missiles with Bergenholm drives, polycyclic drills and atomic warheads.

The way things stand right now, we’re both short-handed, and even those scows the Trogs call ships could probably outrun us.

He had just opened a picnic basket and was lifting out a large wedge of Cheshire cheese and a bottle of Cutty Sark when a tug towing three heavily laden trash scows acknowledged him with a passing signal blast from its whistle.

Rick and Scotty busied themselves loading the tanks into the old coaster wagon that had been modified to haul diving gear, then took the wagon to the scow and put the air bottles carefully in place on the deck.

If I ever again lay eyes on you in this office on anything other than official business, you will be the radar intercept officer on a garbage scow in Newark for the rest of your naval career.

Behind her, she towed a garbage scow newly fitted with two pairs of oars.

But this garbage scow had survived the crisis, and that said a lot for the captain and crew, Academy graduates or not.

In a moment of self-pity, he saw himself at the helm, middle-aged, potbellied, once the master of a proud fishing boat, now only the whoremaster of a garbage scow.

The only other words I've heard from any of you during the two days we've been on this garbage scow were to the effect of 'Don't throw up on me.

But this garbage scow to the stars gig with the mad doctor in charge had a very bad smell to it.