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Definition of Tugboats
1. tugboat [n] - See also: tugboat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tugboats
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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