Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See scow.

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Examples

  • June 18, 2008 at 5:23 am o, yu aer ebil. next fing yule be sayin is teh Enterprize izza garbj skow.

    Teh diet… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • "I've beat nor'west from the railroad, fetched a covered bridge on the port quarter, shipmates," he roared, jovially, "and here I be, bearin's lost and dead-reck'nin 'skow-wowed."

    The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

  • So my neighbor, tired of working, cried, 'A skow let it be; 'and the blacksmith, taking up the red-hot iron, threw it into a trough of hot water near him, and as it fell in, it sung out skow.

    David Crockett 1841

  • But toward night the blacksmith concluded his iron wouldn't make a ploughshare, but 'twould make a fine skow.

    David Crockett 1841

  • Between that and Carlsruhe we pass the Rhine in a common skow with oars, where it is between three and four hundred yards wide.

    Miscellany 1784

  • Like the launch of an advanced garbage skow mainly used to do junior high science-fair projects in low gravity.

    RonRosenbaum.com 2009

  • He'll keep you all here, doing nothing, and finally his bill will turn up a skow; now mind if it don't. "

    David Crockett 1841

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