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scow

/skou/US // skaʊ //UK // (skaʊ) //

驳船,驳壳船,驳岸,驳壳车

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.
    • : Eastern U.S. a barge carrying bulk material in an open hold.
    • : an old or clumsy boat; hulk; tub.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to transport by scow.

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Examples

  • Here the “c” is hard and represents 7, and as the steamboat could easily outrun the “scow,” the phrase is easily remembered.

  • It was an ancient scow, housed over, and evidently had grown venerable in service as a floating fish-market.

  • See him as he journeys down the Yukon in a scow loaded with lumber for a mission building.

  • Footnote 23: A batteau is a kind of scow or flat-boat, used on shallow streams like the Hudson above Waterford.

  • I do not remember the embarking on the great scow for our trip down the Columbia to the Cascades.