Scows

At the left of the picture are scows from the country bearing farmers and their stock; whilst in the background may be seen the Roman Catholic church and schools. ❋ Unknown (1862)

She knew, now, that the separating of the scows was the first move in a deep-laid scheme. ❋ Unknown (1921)

When you get the mill located, then you've got to slip down the river an 'find out what kind of scows we'll need, an' lay out ❋ Unknown (1921)

So those bound up-river pitched their poling-boats and shod their poles with iron, and those bound down caulked their scows and barges and shaped spare sweeps with axe and drawing-knife. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Myprediction is that some day, not too far away, the experts will find a better way of getting the garbage onto the scows or a better place in which to do it. ❋ Henry J. Stern (2011)

From each of these, to the shore and back again, flowed a steady stream of scows, launches, canoes, and all sorts of smaller craft. ❋ Unknown (2010)

No steamboats lay at the bank, no canoes, nor scows, nor poling-boats. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On either side of the steamer, rows of scows received the flying cargo, and on each of these scows a sweating mob of men charged the descending slings and heaved bales and boxes about in frantic search. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Apart from the exit creek on the far side of the lagoon where the pumping scows had been stationed, this was the only major entry point for the water that had passed into the lagoon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The transfer station would be a large building which trucks loaded with garbage that would enter and then drop their contents into scows. ❋ Henry J. Stern (2011)

When filled, the scows, pulled by tugboats, would travel down the East River and bring the garbage to freight cars which would carry it by rail to rural sites where the city had purchased rights to deposit solid waste. ❋ Henry J. Stern (2011)

In his egalitarian view of things, garbage scows and old tires deserve the same attention and weight no more, no less granted to patches of sky, earth, water and architecture. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There were wide canals on which freight barges and trash scows were drawn by reams of muscular canal-side horses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And if you did finally get on one, you needed to place unnatural faith in the boat's captain, as visibility on the canale was at 0 (is there such thing as negative visibility?) and the waters were simultaneously criss-crossed by enormous cruise ships, dozens of small merchant vessels, water taxis, garbage scows and god knows what else. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Bridges, tunnels, scows, tugs, graving docks, container ships, all the great works of transport, trade and linkage were directed in the end to this culminating structure. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

[Work] [hard] and [keep your head up] because SCOW ❋ Smartgirly120 (2012)

I [use] my scow to [traverse] inland [lakes] and streams. ❋ Wichita (2008)

"Did you see those [scow's] back there?" "She's such a scow, it's as if she has a [coffee cup] [stuck] to her hand" ❋ Danke! (2006)

"Did you see [Jon Stewart's] thing about [CNBC]?" "Yeah--scow!" (def. 1) "Did you see [Kea's] face when Dave told her what he thought of her haircut?" "Yeah, he totally scowed her." (def. 2) ❋ Dolly13 (2009)

[courtney] is a scow ❋ Vickster930\ (2016)

I have been [off that] HOO-SCOW so much that my heart was [beatin] like I was [Robert Downey Jr]. ❋ THE BAYS QUEEN ERICA (2006)