scow
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scow (plural scows)
- A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
- 1899, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Heart of Darkness:
- This steamboat was exactly like a decked scow.
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Verb edit
scow (third-person singular simple present scows, present participle scowing, simple past and past participle scowed)
- (transitive) To transport in a scow.