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Meanings of
tugboat
in English
Portuguese
rebocador
Catalan
remolcador
Spanish
remolcador
Back to the meaning
A powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships.
tower
tug
towboat
Portuguese
rebocador
Usage of
tugboat
in English
1
A pirate negotiator said a
tugboat
brought the ransom to the brigands.
2
The noise kept coming closer and presently the
tugboat
came into view.
3
The Malaysian-owned
tugboat
,
was seized with a barge off the Yemeni coast.
4
And when this took place he would not be a
tugboat
mate.
5
A woman who called to a man on the
tugboat
was asked?
6
One might sometimes think his whistle, like a
tugboat
's
,
worked by steam.
7
The liner began to slacken her speed, and the
tugboat
soon was alongside.
8
Smith was the patriarch of of a family of
tugboat
pilots.
9
Tells of discussion with the stars and with the
tugboat
crew.
10
Every day aboard that
tugboat
got harder and harder, missing Emily.
11
There was a
tugboat
coming toward the arch of the bridge.
12
At one time, the little old-fashioned craft had been a
tugboat
.
13
This is true of sailors, hunters, plainsmen, cowboys, and
tugboat
captains.
14
It was an odd defiance, a
tugboat
's
challenge to a German battle line.
15
They said 10 of the
tugboat
's
crew were Italian citizens.
16
You don't have to be
tugboat
skipper to go green on the water, though.
Other examples for "tugboat"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
tugboat
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
flag tugboat
indonesian tugboat
attack a tugboat
korean tugboat
own tugboat
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Translations for
tugboat
Portuguese
rebocador
Catalan
remolcador
Spanish
remolcador
Tugboat
through the time
Tugboat
across language varieties
United States of America
Common