scow

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Recent Examples of scow The scow began to drift downstream toward the edge of the falls and the 167-foot drop beyond. Kayla Epstein, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2019 Partway through the trip, their motorboat breaks down, and they are forced to pole more than 200 miles upriver in a scow. Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2020 Over a century ago, the 80-foot-long scow was dredging for a tugboat along the Niagara River, upstream from Niagara Falls. Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019 The two men opened the bottom of the scow to flood it and slow it down. Nr Editors, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019 See All Example Sentences for scow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scow
Noun
  • The boat’s prow grated on the shore and Larry hauled it up among the rushes beside a battered skiff.
    Ted Janes, Outdoor Life, 29 May 2025
  • Indoor rowing doesn’t have quite the same charm of being in a skiff on a river (sigh, if only), but the best rowing machine will still give you a great workout right at home.
    Sara Coughlin, SELF, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Other activities, such as jet-skiing, kiteboarding, scuba diving, and outrigger canoe rides, can be coordinated upon request.
    Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2025
  • The freight canoe that was towing us plowed right on toward the logs, hit the first line, slowed, penetrated several canoe lengths, and stopped.
    Robeson Bailey, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • The seven-foot canvas features only two figures, who stand in a green shallop like Adam and Eve.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 4 May 2022
  • And so had the shallop, built in Massachusetts in 1957 at the Plymouth Marine Railway.
    Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
Noun
  • In the early morning hours of September 8, 1860, the lumber schooner Augusta collided with the Lady Elgin.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2025
  • But some of its valuable cargo washed ashore, and another schooner was able to recover roughly 100,000 feet of lumber.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Temo sought to give boaters a portable, easy-to-handle means of bringing clean, quiet electric propulsion to small vessels like tenders, rowboats and dinghies.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 May 2025
  • Pull up the dinghy to The Ranch Escapade, where pristine white sand invites visitors to while away the day with ice-cold drinks and simple, savory Caribbean fare.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • One group replicated a bamboo raft from more than 800,000 years ago and used it to travel between Indonesian islands.
    Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 25 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, Fox Entertainment Global also unveiled a raft of content sales across Central and Eastern Europe.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • New York City’s waterfront isn’t just a postcard-perfect backdrop for foiling catamarans.
    Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • The idea of a solar-electric catamaran is no longer that revolutionary—Silent and Sunreef unveiled such multihulls in 2024 and 2023, respectively—but that hasn’t stopped Revolution Marine Group from jumping on the emissions-free bandwagon.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • It’s crowded with houseboats, fishing vessels, roving vendors in sampans, and multi-story floating restaurants that drew tourists until the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to shutter.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 6 June 2025
  • Hong Kong: Hong Kong Harbor, one of the world’s most scenic, rewards passengers with vistas of skyscrapers, mountains, ferries and sampans.
    Georgina Cruz, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024

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“Scow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scow. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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