scow

• “By the time I was sixteen I was sailing in scow-schooners, fishing salmon with the Greeks up the Sacramento River, and serving as sailor on the Fish Patrol.”

  Small-Boat Sailing

• “I was sailing in scow-schooners, fishing salmon with the Greeks up the”

  The Joy Of Small-Boat Sailing

• “He shared his garbage tour with M'Buna, and they spent their time chatting desultorily at the controls of the "scow" -actually a reactionless space tractor-while the garbage pods steered, unloaded, and returned themselves.”

  Starchild Omnibus

• “Shooting rapids in a scow is a very different matter from riding through them on a plank.”

  The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island

• “Sometimes it is called a scow; but that sounds common.”

  Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness

• “As the sides of the scow were a little higher than usual, and the interior of the cabin had no more elevation than was necessary for comfort, this unusual addition had neither a very clumsy nor a very obtrusive appearance.”

  The Deerslayer

• “At the "scow," as the ferry-boat was called, Peter joined us; he ferried us deftly over the deep and rapid water, and then led on, as rapidly as if it had been daylight, along a path through the pines.”

  In the Wrong Paradise

• “To tell the truth, he had not been able to free himself from a lingering fear lest his mother might come after him, before he could get afloat, with orders for some duty or other on shore, and that would have been worse than the little old "scow," a good deal.”

  St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9

• “Evidently the prospect of losing further important patients, and thereby running the risk of his professional skill being impeached by the ignorant masses, caused him to give up his fine practice, for he shortly took down his brass plate and accepted an invitation to become engineer on a 12 h.p. steam-propelled "scow" (and flat-bottomed at that), plying between Iquitos and an adjacent Seringal more or less on the dividing-line between the Seringa and cauchouc territory.”

  Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure

• “[Footnote 23: A batteau is a kind of scow or flat-boat, used on shallow streams like the Hudson above Waterford.] [Footnote 24: Saratoga.”

  The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes

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