Scows is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCOWS in dictionary:

VERB:
• SCOW, to transport by flat-bottomed boat
NOUN:
• a wide-beamed sailing dinghy.
• a flat-bottomed boat used for transporting cargo to and from ships in harbour.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to transport by scow (a flat-bottomed boat)

Words related to SCOWS

scow9 scowed12 scowing13

Words that contain SCOWS

mudscows16

How to use SCOWS in a sentence

• The women, children, and cattle were put in the middle scows, while the outside were manned and worked by the men.
• Soon afterwards three heavily laden scows passed, drifting down with the current.
• The Indians crowded into the craft they had captured, and paddled and rowed after the scows, whooping and firing.
• Once through the swift water at the tail of Slave Rapids, the four scows drifted lazily down the river.
• The long-gathering twilight deepened as the scows floated northward.
• The other three scows drifted lazily in the rear and, standing upon the running-board, Vermilion roared his orders.
• The high banks on either side of the river drew closer together, the speed of the drifting scows increased, and upon the dark surface of the water tiny whirlpools appeared.
• Looking backward, Chloe watched the three scows with their swarthy crews straining at the great sweeps.
• She knew, now, that the separating of the scows was the first move in a deep-laid scheme.
• It was evident that the men on the other scows were not party to the plot, or Vermilion would not have risked running the Chute in the darkness.
• Would the other scows come on? It was her one hope.
• I hold myself responsible for the safe conduct of all who travel in my scows.
• Lapierre gave the command to shove off, and when the scows were well in the grip of the current, he turned again to the girl at his side.
• When the sun finally dipped behind the barren scrub-topped hills, the scows were beached at the mouth of a deep ravine, from whose depths sounded the trickle of a tiny cascade.
• And at Fort Chippewayan the scows with their contents were examined by two officers of the Mounted, and allowed to proceed on their way.
• Scows of from five to fifty tons were built at the towns along the rivers and piloted down the stream to the Crescent City.
• Our goods were transferred from the scows to the pack mule train.
• There were several steamboats and trading scows tied to the narrow levee, but their crews were still buried in slumber.
• We were watching all the steamboats, and even the trading scows, but never thought of finding them on a raft.
• On many of the smaller rivers boats are being improvised by adding wheels and motive power to ordinary scows.
• All hands turned out, lading was removed, and the scows hauled up on the shingle, the rollers piling on shore with a height and fury perfectly astonishing for such a lake.
• It consisted of a couple of shallow scows, each about four feet long.
• We could have listened to her for a week and regretted neither the rain nor the waiting scows.
• The scows tie up, and without undressing we sleep on board, pulling a tarpaulin over us and letting the rain rain.
• The scows have their noses poked into the bank, the men have built smudge fires in front, but we decide that the best way to escape the mosquito is to go to bed.
• Lines are run from the wreck to the shore, other scows discharge their cargo on the bank and push out to take the water-logged goods from the wreck.
• The drifting sand piles up against us, and, in scows, the whole cargo is removed.

Similar words containing SCOW without suffix s

scow9 scowl10 scowp12 scowed12 scowls11 scowps13 scowth14 mudscow15 scowder13 scowing13 scowled13 scowler12 scowped15 scowrer12 scowrie12 scowths15 mudscows16 scowders14 scowlers13 scowling14 scowping16 scowrers13 scowries13 scowther16 scowdered16 scowthers17 scowdering17 scowlingly19 scowthered19 scowderings18 scowthering20

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