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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



... kind of metallic cradle, almost like a ship ready for launching on its ways. Ahead of it, metal plates stretched away like rails, running toward the lip of the Palisades. Its quadruple floats, each the size of a tugboat and each capable of being exhausted of air, constituted a potential lifting-force of enclosed vacuums that very largely offset the weight of the mechanism. It was still a heavier-than-air machine, but the balance could be ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England



Words linked to "Tugboat" :   boat, towboat, tug, helm



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