Crossword clues for towboat
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tug \Tug\, n.
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A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort.
At the tug he falls, Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
--Dryden. A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.(Naut.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat.
A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
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(Mining.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
Tug iron, an iron hook or button to which a tug or trace may be attached, as on the shaft of a wagon.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) a tugboat 2 (context nautical English) a squat powerful boat designed to push barges 3 A vessel constructed for being towed, such as a canal boat. 4 A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.
WordNet
Usage examples of "towboat".
Hicks and Flaherty had grown old in the towboat service and the rules of the road rested lightly on their sordid souls.
Scraggs and a beachcomber like his mate Gibney make a pair of star-spangled monkeys out of said two towboat men and get away with it?
McGuffey while the latter was disposing of Jack Flaherty, which he did, via the rail, even as the towboat men had disposed of Mr.
For a moment Angel considered slowing and trolling along the floating rafts of logs waiting to be picked up by a towboat and hauled to Vancouver Bay.
The thick, braided steel cable that connected the towboat to the heavily loaded barge was taut, humming with energy.
Despite the obvious laboring of the heavy engines, the towboat was barely making one knot forward speed.
The towboat and the railroad had done their work, and done it well and completely.
When the boat was about two hundred yards from the bank, the men in the towboat threw torches onto the pyre, and cut the towrope, then turned back towards the bank.
As the tender from the towboat approached the landing, Trace tossed the cigarette over the side and reached for the duffel bag at his feet.
Trace paused to toss a saluting wave in the direction THE BEST WAY TO LOSE of the towboat, its engines screaming while it pushed a dozen fully loaded barges lashed together up the channel of the mighty river.
He tried to blame it on the absence of the thundering engines of a towboat vibrating his bed, pretending that he slept so lightly because of the stillness of the house, the slightest noise disturbing him.
Straightening from the railing, Trace swung THE BEST WAY TO LOSE his gaze to the front, beyond the prow of the first barge, and spied the towboat pushing barges toward them.
A string of multicolored lights circled the pilothouse of the towboat, and an artificial, faded green wreath was tacked onto a large life ring on the side, near the name Sophie B.
I mentioned to you that our new towboat was due to come out of the boatyards about that same time.
More than a dozen people were already on hand for the launching of the new towboat, fully equipped with all the latest navigation and communications devices.