tugboat
pronunciation
How to pronounce tugboat in British English:
UK [ˈtʌgˌbəʊt]
How to pronounce tugboat in American English:
US [ˈtʌɡˌbot]
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- Noun:
- a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
Word Origin
- tugboat (n.)
- also tug-boat, 1830, from tug (n.) + boat (n.).
Example
- 1. China 's financial regulators are beginning to look like tugboat captains on a speedboat .
- 2. Using weapons sent overland from tunisia and smuggled by tugboat , the fighters besieged qaddafi 's forces .
- 3. He was in the harbor , on a tugboat , when the carpathia sliced through the fog .
- 4. This can reap real benefits : in the netherlands service costs dropped by a quarter after a new tugboat operator entered .
- 5. They showed that just one heavy-duty tugboat can make the trip in about 140 days while dragging an iceberg weighing 7 million tons - enough to meet the annual water consumption of 35000 people .