Definitions for scow

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Spelling: [skou]

IPA: /skaʊ/

Scow is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in scow (cosw).

Definitions for scow

noun

1. any of various vessels having a flat-bottomed rectangular hull with sloping ends, built in various sizes with or without means of propulsion, as barges, punts, rowboats, or sailboats.
2. Eastern U.S. a barge carrying bulk material in an open hold.
3. an old or clumsy boat; hulk; tub.

verb (used with object)

1. to transport by scow.

Origin of scow

1660-70, Americanism; Dutch schouw ferryboat

Examples for scow

I saw the man jump out with a rope and try to snub the scow to a tree.

The mass concrete was mixed and placed by the scow plant, shown by Fig. 84.

Below the water the form was that of a scow, the bottom being flat.

I dropped in at the scow the second day after the packet brought me home.

We took the rapids broadside on, but the scow was light and very strong.

All at once I saw directly in front a scow struggling to make the shore.

The Splash filled away, and we landed at the point where the scow lay.

There will be time enough then to load the scow, and reach the island by daylight.

The line came up to me easily, cast off from the scow at the other end.

The long painter of the scow had been extended over, and fastened to, the three boats.