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towboats

towboats is the plural of towboat.

Meaning of towboat

Noun

towboat (plural towboats)

  1. A tugboat.
  2. A squat powerful boat designed to push barges.
  3. A vessel constructed for being towed, such as a canal boat.
  4. A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.

Questions about towboats

What is towboats the plural of?
Towboats is the plural of towboat.

Words near towboats in the dictionary

  1. towboard
  2. towboards
  3. towboat
  4. towboater
  5. towboaters
  6. towboats
  7. towbodies
  8. towbody
  9. Towcester
  10. Towe
  11. towed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: towboats (page history and authors); towboat (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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