scow

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"We're kind of like one of the slices of breads and the scow is the other slice.

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  1. noun A large flatbottom boat with square ends, used chiefly for transporting freight.

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  • We had completely done for his scow, and were just giving the finishing blows to his boat as he hove in sight; whereupon, clapping whip and spur to his horse, he came on as hard as he could drive. —  The Life of General Francis Marion
  • A sickening sense of loss and failure crushed me For the scow was gone CHAPTER XVI It was three days before we made a start again, and to me each day was like a year. —  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
  • A man was one moment too late; but running along the gunwale of a mud-scow, and jumping into a skiff, he was put on board by a black fellow. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
  • He had come back for the scow, and to find Scraggy. —  From the Valley of the Missing
  • "We're kind of like one of the slices of breads and the scow is the other slice. —  Pee-Wee Harris Adrift
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  1. Dutch schouw, from Middle Dutch scouwe.

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  1. Also sometimes skow, skew; from Dutch schouw, a ferry-boat, punt, scow.
  2. from scow, n.
 

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