tug-boat

At Wolves Mick McCarthy flaunts a certain telegenic madness, affecting the thrillingly windblown hairstyle of a quixotic New York tug-boat captain.

Is there method in Arsène Wenger's mad, mad world? Barney Ronay 2010

As a filler, a "fleet-tug" is a tug-boat that has 4 man crew, whose basic job is to sort barges into "tiers", rows of bargestied together with 1 'steel cable and all of thistethered to the shore by a 4' steel gable, typically each tier having 1 to 8 barges.

OpEdNews - Diary: My Close Call; Crashing, Totalling a Car at 60 MPH 2008

I had a pull on old Sloggett, for I had known him ever since he owned a dissolute tug-boat at Delagoa Bay.

Greenmantle 2005

They saw the Ford sedan making its way over the water - lined ice, through the snow-storm, like a tug-boat in a fog.

Main Street 2004

He was the commander and owner of the only tug-boat on the river, a very trim white craft of 150 tons or more, as elegantly neat as a yacht, with

Falk, by Joseph Conrad 2004

On Saturday afternoon, the 10th, he was fetched off by a big tug-boat, on board of which was the

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

I would chat discreetly with you between two pages of your novel, and I would make that fantastic grating of the chain [Footnote: The chain of the tug-boat going up or coming down the Seine.] which you detest, but whose oddity does not displease me, keep still.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

He met several miners, but he puffed away like a tug-boat against the tide, and went on.

Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors Various

The forest is not wholly separated from the mundane world for occasionally a faint echo of the Rouen railway is heard, a toot from a river tug-boat bringing coal up-river to Paris, the strident notes of automobile horns, or that of a hooting steam-tram which scorches along the principal roadway over which state coaches of kings and courtiers formerly rolled.

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

Immediately after the hydroplane had been moored to a small pier owned by Captain Britten, the tug-boat chugged out into the Gulf of

Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope Victor [pseud.] Appleton