📖 Definitions of "Scows"
noun
- 1
A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
verb
- 1
To transport in a scow.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Scows"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| bargesnoun | (nautical) A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo. |
| lightersnoun | A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes. |
| doriesnoun | Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish. |
| schoonersnoun | (nautical) A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast. |
| docksnoun | A collection of docks, wharves, warehouses and offices |
| feluccasnoun | A traditional wooden shallow-draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails. |
| bateauxnoun | A small, flat-bottomed type of boat. |
| pontoonsnoun | (card games) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it. |
| whaleboatnoun | A long narrow rowing boat, formerly used in whaling, which is pointed at both ends so that it can move either forwards or backwards equally well. |
| coraclenoun | (nautical) A small circular or oblong boat made of wickerwork and made watertight with hides or pitch, propelled and steered with a single paddle and light enough to be carried on a person's back. |
| centerboardnoun | (American spelling, nautical) Alternative spelling of centreboard. [(British spelling, nautical) The adjustable keel on a small yacht or dinghy that acts, among other things, as ballast and to counteract the sideways force of the wind.] |
| yawlnoun | A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post. |
| pogynoun | (eastern US dialects) menhaden (fish) |
| sailboatsnoun | (nautical) A boat propelled by a sail. |
| iceboatnoun | An ice yacht. |
| boatsnoun | A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind. |
| canoesnoun | (nautical) A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends. |
| beamynoun | Showing or emitting rays of light; beaming; radiant; shining. |
| davitsnoun | (nautical, construction) A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship. |
| catboatnoun | A sailing boat with a single sail, usually rigged on a gaff spar, used for fishing in New England and later adapted for racing and cruising. It has a single mast set near to the bow and a long boom which may extend over the stern. |
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