(n.) A vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat.
(n.) A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.
Example Sentences:
Tugboat
Definition:
(n.) See Tug, n., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) The drugs were found in a secret hold in the Tanzania-registered tugboat.
(2) Mumin Sahin and Emin Ozmen were found guilty of smuggling three tonnes of the class A drug, which were discovered inside the MV Hamal tugboat about 100 miles (160km) off the coast of Aberdeen in 2015.
(3) It was brought by tugboat on Sunday to a port near Pangkalan Bun on Borneo, the search headquarters.
(4) He's unhappy with an article headlined Minister Silent on Tugboats.
(5) The Kulluk was towed on Monday by a 360ft anchor handler, the Aiviq, and a tugboat, the Alert.
(6) The incident took place on Monday, 60 nautical miles off the coast of Libya, after an Italian tugboat and the coastguard ship came to the rescue of 250 migrants.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The cocaine was found in a secret hold on board the MV Hamal tugboat.
(8) The floating barge office where the tugboat captain reports for duty is tilted like a funhouse.
(9) A unit in Misrata, 280 miles up the coast, commandeered a tugboat, lashed jeeps mounted with rocket launchers and anti-aircraft guns to the decks, and set sail.
(10) The tugboat crew guided the drill ship to a place where it would cause the least environmental damage and cut it loose.
(11) Start at the PE harbour and watch tugboats hauling in car carriers and cruise ships.
(12) In one narrow part of the lake, dozens of dredgers extend from the shore in a line, leaving only a narrow passageway for a tugboat hauling a barge piled up with yellow sand.
(13) It was brought by tugboat on Sunday to a port near the search headquarters at Pangkalan Bun on Borneo.
(14) Damon Krukowski (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi) has published abysmal data on payouts from Pandora and Spotify for his song "Tugboat" and Lowery even wrote a piece entitled " My Song Got Played on Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89, Less Than What I Make from a Single T-shirt Sale! "