Definition of Tugboats

1. Noun. (plural of tugboat) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tugboats

1. tugboat [n] - See also: tugboat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tugboats

tufting
tuftings
tuftless
tufts
tuftsin
tufty
tug-boat
tug-of-war
tug boat
tug of love
tug of war
tugan
tugarinovite
tugboat
tugboats (current term)
tugged
tugger
tuggers
tugging
tuggingly
tuggings
tughra
tughras
tughrik
tughriks
tugless
tugra
tugras
tugrik

Literary usage of Tugboats

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Treatise on Sub-aqueous Foundations: Including The Coffer-dam by Charles Evan Fowler (1914)
"... CHAPTER XIX tugboats AND SCOWS THE use of tugboats and scows on large foundation works been referred LO in various other chapters in this book, ..."

2. Industrial Arts Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Eng N 64:101-3 Ja 16 '13; Power 37:10-2, 106-9 Ja 7, 28 '13 Experimental tugboats: the Fulton and the Froude. il Sei Am S 75:12-3 Ja 4 'U Five-masted ..."

3. Digest of Decisions of the Courts and Interstate Commerce Commission Under by Edward Beauchamp Peirce (1908)
"Steamboats and tugboats—superintendence and manning.—Pay of ferry superintendent, his clerks and attendants, ferry station master, ferry agents, ..."

4. Hearings by United States Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, William Stedman Greene (1908)
"tugboats, and we transport in the neighborhood of 20000000 passengers on our ferries. Mr. GRYMES. Yearly; yes, sir. We transport over 2000000 tons of ..."

5. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1909)
"Fire-Fighting tugboats. RH Newbern. Practical suggestions for converting tugboats into ... 93361 C. Fire Fighting Equipment for tugboats. RH Newbern. ..."

6. Joint Report with Comprehensive Plan and Recommendations by William Russell Willcox (1920)
"tugboats hauled the floats and either placed them alongside piers where the ears were ... Except in sizes and capacities of the car floats and tugboats, ..."

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