Definitionn. a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
Last update: September 8, 2015
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"He used to bum araound the c'mission houses to Boston lookin' fer the Lord to make him captain of a towboat on his merits." [Please select]
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While, as stated above, the traction is generally by steam towboat, the more picturesque, if slower and more humble, tow-horse is more largely in evidence here than elsewhere in France. [Please select]
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The packet captain scorned a towboat to haul him into the stream if the wind served fair to set all plain sail as his ship lay at her wharf. [Please select]
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Then Marsh actually had the effrontery to come here personally and demand damages for the injury to his towboat, claiming there were no lights on the schooner. [Please select]
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After all, it took a towboat three or four days to go from Albany to Buffalo, and the time was not far distant, they argued, when a railroad would make the same trip in less than a day. [Please select]
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