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scow

/skaʊ/

scow noun: a large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.

scow: a large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends
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Noun

scow (plural scows)

  1. A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
    • This steamboat was exactly like a decked scow.1899, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Heart of Darkness

Verb

scow (third-person singular simple present scows, present participle scowing, simple past and past participle scowed)

  1. (transitive) To transport in a scow.

scow meaning in Tamil and Urdu

scow in Tamil

தட்டைப்படகு, தட்டைப் படகு

scow in Urdu

تفریح کشتی

Forms of scow

Noun
pluralscows
Verb
third-person singular presentscows
present participlescowing
past participlescowed
pastscowed

Origin of scow

Borrowed from Dutch schouw.

Words formed from scow

Words that rhyme with scow

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Questions about scow

What does scow mean?
Scow means a large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
What is scow in Tamil?
Scow in Tamil is தட்டைப்படகு, தட்டைப் படகு. See Scow meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is scow?
Scow can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce scow?
Scow is pronounced /skaʊ/.
What is the plural of scow?
The plural of scow is scows.

Words near scow in the dictionary

  1. Scoville units
  2. Scovilles
  3. Scovills
  4. Scovils
  5. scoving
  6. scow
  7. Scowcroft
  8. Scowcrofts
  9. scowdering
  10. scowed
  11. Scowegian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scow (page history and authors); scow (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scow (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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