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Definition: Scow |
ScowNoun1. Any of various flat-bottomed boats with sloping ends. 2. A barge carrying bulk materials in an open hold. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scow" was first used: 1780. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A device used to a limited extent to load solid blocks of coal. The scow proper is a flat steel plate that is moved underneath the undercut and blocks the coal by means of a hoist and a tail rope. The coal is then wedged down on the scow, and the solid block is hauled by means of the hoist and a headrope to a delivery point where it is transferred to cars. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A scow, in the original sense, is a flat bottomed boat, often used to haul garbage or similar bulk freight; cf. barge. The etymology of the word is from Dutch schouwe, meaning such a boat.In slang, the word has recently acquired two new senses, which refer to motor vehicles:
- The first colloquial sense calls a dump truck a "scow."
- Extending the first colloquial sense, "scow" is sometimes used to refer to a pickup truck, sport utility vehicle, or minivan as a class; or any similar large, tall, or long vehicle.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scow."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ship | Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scow |
| English words defined with "scow": Mud scow. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scow": BRIDGE OPERATOR, SLIP, bridge tender ♦ California method of boring ♦ INSPECTOR OF DREDGING ♦ mud scow method ♦ slip tender, stove pipe method. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Three women sitting on scow in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Horn; boat; harbor; yacht; baiter; baitskiff; barge; bark; bateau; canoe; catamaran; craft; dinghy; dory; dragger; highliner; hulk; ketch; launch; lifeboat; mackinaw; pointer; raft; rodney; sailboat; schooner; scow; shallop; ship; skiff; sloop; steamboat. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Scow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scow" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "scow" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Scow | Last name | 170 | 45,511 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "scow": dumping scow ♦ mud scow ♦ mud scow method. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
scow | 12 |
mc scow | 11 |
e scow | 7 |
c scow | 4 |
boat sail scow | 3 |
chincoteague scow | 3 |
m20 scow | 2 |
pamela scow | 2 |
m scow | 2 |
sailing scow | 2 |
john scow | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | maunë (barge, flatboat, lighter). (various references) | |
Arabic | ماعون قارب مسطح, صندل (sandal). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шлеп (barge, keel, tow). (various references) | |
Chinese | 大平底船. (various references) | |
Danish | stålpram (pontoon, steel barge, steel scow), klappram med sideskakt (side-door hopper barge, side-dump scow), klappram med central skakt (bottom door hopper barge, bottom-dump scow, hopper barge with central hopper), kippram med fast daek (flush-decked barge, flush-decked scow), kalifornisk boremetode (California method of boring, mud scow method, stove pipe method). (various references) | |
Dutch | stalen heibak (pontoon, steel barge, steel scow), zolderschuit (barge), onderlosser met zijkleppen (side-door hopper barge, side-dump scow), onderlosser (bottom door hopper barge, bottom-dump scow, dump barge, dump scow, hopper barge with central hopper), dekschuit (flush-decked barge, flush-decked scow), californische boormethode (California method of boring, mud scow method, stove pipe method). (various references) | |
Farsi | قایق چهارگوش , قایق تفریحی (Dinghy), وته پهن , باقایق چهارگوش حمل کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | poraus lietepumpun avulla (California method of boring, mud scow method, stove pipe method). (various references) | |
French | chaland, allège. (various references) | |
German | prahm (ferry), Leichter (barge, canter, easier, lighter). (various references) | |
Greek | μαούνα (barge, lighter, wherry), φορτηγή (tender). (various references) | |
Hungarian | uszály (barge, ferry scow, float, pram, tail, tow, trail, train). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tongkang. (various references) | |
Italian | zattera (float, raft), più leggero (easier), chiatta (barge, keel, raft, Rhine, Rhine barge). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 平底船 (flat-bottomed boat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひらそ"ぶね (flat-bottomed boat). (various references) | |
Korean | 거룻배. (various references) | |
Manx | baatey rea-honnagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | chata (barge), barcaça (barge, keel, wherry). (various references) | |
Russian | шаланда (lighter). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | barža (barge, lighter), šlep (train, tugboat). (various references) | |
Spanish | chalana (barge, motorized barge). (various references) | |
Swedish | pråm (barge, flat, flatboat, Hoy, lighter, pram, wherry). (various references) | |
Turkish | salapurya (barge, lighter), mavna (ark, barge, Hoy, lighter). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шаланда (barge). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | s lan (lighter). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | schouw. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scow": scowder, scowdered, scowdering, scowders, scowed, scowing, scowl, scowled, scowler, scowlers, scowling, scowlingly, scowls, scows. (additional references) | |
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"Scow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acwo, Esco, escow, sbow, scaw, Scawn, sccop, sccow, scew, scho, schw, sco, scob, scod, scoe, scog, scol, scom, scon, scoom, scop, scor, scouw, scov, scoy, scuz, Scvo, seow, skaw, sko, skod, skof, smow, snco, sso, ssso, tcow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scow" (pronounced skou") |
| 2 | -k ou" | cow. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cows. | |
| Words within the letters "c-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: cos, cow, sow, wos. | |
-2 letters: os, ow, so, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: chows, cowls, crows, scowl, scows. | |
+2 letters: cahows, chowse, clowns, cowers, crowds, crowns, escrow, scowed, scowls, sowcar, wackos. | |
+3 letters: chowsed, chowses, cobwebs, cogways, cowages, cowards, cowboys, cowfish, cowiest, cowpats, cowpeas, cowpies, cowries, cowshed, cowskin, cowslip, crowers, escrows, salchow, scowder, scowing, scowled, scowler, snowcap, sowcars, wackoes, whackos. | |
+4 letters: bawcocks, beclowns, becrowds, carassow, casework, caseworm, chowders, chowsing, clowders, clownish, coleslaw, cornrows, cowbanes, cowbells, cowbinds, cowbirds, cowflaps, cowflops, cowgirls, cowhages, cowhands, cowherbs, cowherds, cowhides, cowlicks, cowlings, cowplops, cowpokes, cowpoxes, cowrites, cowsheds, cowskins, cowslips, coxswain, crossbow, crossway, crowbars, crowders, crowdies, crowners, crownets, crowstep, curassow, cussword, cutdowns, cutworks, cutworms, decrowns, discrown, downcast, escrowed, lockjaws, outcrows, recrowns, rowlocks, salchows, scofflaw, scowders, scowlers, scowling, showcase, snowcaps, snowpack, uncrowns, wainscot, warlocks, wedlocks, welcomes, wicopies, windsock, winnocks, woodcuts, woolsack. | |
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