Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small powerful boat designed for towing or pushing larger vessels. Also called towboat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A strongly built steamboat used for towing sailing and other vessels; a towboat; a tug.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See tug, n., 3.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
Etymologies
- From tug + boat. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The tugboat is Italian-flagged, but its ownership was unclear.”
“The only other way to gelift boats to the continent would be by pushing them with a tugboat, which is a slow and possibly dangerous process.”
“PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A preliminary federal report says an idled tour boat and nearby vessels repeatedly called the tugboat guiding the barge that hit and sank the craft, killing two”
“A preliminary federal report says an idled tour boat and nearby vessels repeatedly called the tugboat guiding the barge that hit and sank the craft, killing two Hungarian students.”
“PHILADELPHIA - A preliminary federal report says an idled tour boat and nearby vessels repeatedly called the tugboat guiding the barge that hit and sank the craft, killing two”
“Work to remove the partially sunken tugboat, which is west of the 10th Street Bridge, is expected to start in a couple of hours.”
“No one was onboard the tugboat, which is registered to F&A Enterprises in St. Augustine.”
“But its hands are tied in key respects by international agreements, some several decades old, that give primacy to commercial shipping and make basic safety measures such as tugboat escorts optional rather than mandatory.”
“Note that the proposed "tugboat" method is superior to the nuclear options we looked at a few years ago.”
“Nairobi (ANTARA News) - Perompak menyandera "tugboat" (kapal penarik) Amerika Serikat berbendera-Italia dengan 16 awaknya, Sabtu.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tugboat’.
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boat phrases/words
how boat is used
boat basin, boat bed, boat bedding, boat-bone, boat bridge, boat chain, boat chock, boat cloak, boat club, boat cover, boat cradle, boat crew and 140 more...
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Out to Sea
If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat.boat, ship, skiff, barge, canoe, catamaran, yacht, scow, lifeboat, launch, ketch, dory and 303 more...
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billfence's Words
quotidian, flux, sawbuck, horsefeathers, chalcedony, harp, no, fox, tennis, badminton, flue, charm and 186 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
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Words & Phrases #3 (Getting There...)
prescription, diminish, stringent, tone, tugboat, geek, top-notch, retrofit, paranoid, ferris wheel, fountain, apex and 8 more...
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Tunie: The Dutchman
By Michael Peter Smith
The Dutchman's not the kind of man
To keep his thumb jammed in the dam
That holds his dreams in
But that's a secret only Margaret knows
W...candle, tune, whiskey, windmill, unforgiving, captain, tugboat, wooden shoes, zuider zee, unborn, bloom, breakfast and 2 more...
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travelling
dirigible, nautilus, tireme, odyssey, timeship, spaceship, jet, car, jeep, phaeton, truck, lightship and 58 more...
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