Sentence examples for draw barges from inspiring English sources

Draft animal power has also been used to pump water, thresh grain, draw barges, and haul logs out of forests in lumbering operations.

A nearby warehouse on the River Parrett that the Bagehots and their partners owned, to and from which horse-drawn barges once brought salt and corn, has been converted into a café, office and eco-housing complex.

I had plenty of time to think about all this because I was gliding gently along at about 3 miles an hour, slow enough to spot the bird warbling above me in one of the 100-year-old poplars planted to shade the towpath where horses once drew barges along the canal.

Two temporary dams were installed which allowed the rest of the canal to remain open and meant the horse drawn barge at Tiverton was able to run throughout the summer of 2013.

Large crowds had gathered to cheer the royal party, which apparently frightened the horses drawing the barge so much that they fell into the canal.

The ark is built on 25 steel barges drawn together to form a basin.

Wheat could come east, widgets could go west, and people could move both ways, on barges drawn by mules.

These defences were augmented by additional batteries set up by 200 soldiers under Captain Muskein, drawn from the barges that had been trapped in the town by the British blockade.

We grind on downriver as the boat moves up to pass us port to port, making its way up the thousand feet of barges to draw even with the pilothouse.

Objects were bought or excavated and transported on barges, horse-drawn wagons or even by foot back to Berkeley.

But an agency official did describe Shell's plan which includes an on-site oil spill response fleet, near-shore barges, and responders drawn partially from local oil cleanup companies, 2 including Alaska Clean Seas of Anchorage as robust and well-rounded.