scow
Example Sentences
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The next morning, after a Canadian volunteer, William “Red” Hill Sr., braved a trip across the pulley to untangle its ropes midair, the buoy finally reached the scow.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2019
No one contemplated that our ship of state’d Become a garbage scow.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2017
“I found a friend of mine who had a garbage scow and we loaded the three trucks-worth on the barge. I was out there with it. Opposite Atlantic Highlands, a few miles out.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2016
He told the story of two young men - Lawrence and Wallace Goodell - who spent one summer on a flat-bottom scow, catching hundreds of pounds of clams.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2015
I did find a scow overturned by the water’s edge, but could not find Clippinger himself.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
