Sentence examples for scow from inspiring English sources

Completed by June 1805, his new type of steam-engine scow, called the Orukter Amphibolos, or Amphibious Digger, was 30 feet (9 m) long by 12 feet (3.7 m) wide.

The fountain there, the Barcaccia ("Scow"), is fed by the Acqua Vergine, an aqueduct of 19 bce, which escaped Gothic destruction because it was mainly underground and which was repaired in 1447.

Later they took words from foreign settlers: chowder and prairie from the French, scow and sleigh from the Dutch.

This type of sailing scow had one leeboard held to the side by a rack or iron bar-and-staple device and was usually rigged with one or two spritsails.

To the former class the Dutch contributed cruller, cold-slaw, cockey, scow, boss, smearcase and Santa Claus, and the French contributed gopher, prairie, chowder, carry-all and bureau (a chest of drawers).

They were roped to an orange scow that towed them a little way into the ocean, and then the boats continued out and spent the day.

His fellow-scow captains don't think much of his paintings.

One shivering helmsman, having flipped his e-scow, a sporty racer, had been evacuated to the hospital in Kenora: a tow-rope line had tried to detach his thumb.

Of a number of small sailing scows that also were employed in the U.S. fisheries, the New Jersey garvey is one of the better known.

10 45 A.M.--Out on the choppy Canalazzo, among the vaporetti and scows and barges and the motoscafi, the black ferries, called traghetti carry their lightly swaying passengers.

It's after dinner, "when the blue-green lights of the scows, those slow-moving heralds of melancholy, would begin to appear in the night sky".