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Tugboat   /tˈəgbˌoʊt/   Listen
Tugboat

noun
1.
A powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships.  Synonyms: towboat, tower, tug.






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"Tugboat" Quotes from Famous Books



... cypress swamp. The dredgings thrown upon the banks have raised the edge of the swamp to seven feet above the water. Little pines grow along these shores, and among them the small birds, now on their southern migrations, sported and sang. Whenever a steamer or tugboat passed me, it crowded the canoe close to the bank; but these vessels travel along the canal at so slow a rate, that no trouble is experienced by the canoeist from the disturbance caused by their revolving screws. Freedmen, poling flats loaded ...
— Voyage of The Paper Canoe • N. H. Bishop

... hold, for I was truly attached to the fellow, and in due time we made a mile, though I know the cyclometer would have recorded ten. More hopeful, I was steaming on, a clerical tugboat, when of a sudden Geordie stopped, pointing with his right leg high in air, trusting me and his left to perform ...
— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles



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