: a strongly built powerful boat used for towing and pushing
called also towboat
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The journey downriver began at around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, with tugboats guiding the ship under the Walt Whitman Bridge about 10 minutes before low tide, when the clearance would be greatest.
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Isabelle Taft, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Named after a nearby tugboat that accidentally sank more than 30 years ago, the beach has become one of the island’s most popular diving and snorkeling sites.
—Curaçao Tourist Board, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
Lind, then in his late 70s, invited an eccentric group of folks living on a neighboring vintage tugboat to come along and become his tenants.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2025
Swell, run by Maple Leaf Adventures out of Victoria, British Columbia, was built in 1912 as a wooden-hulled tugboat.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
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Isabelle Taft, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Named after a nearby tugboat that accidentally sank more than 30 years ago, the beach has become one of the island’s most popular diving and snorkeling sites.
—Curaçao Tourist Board, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
Lind, then in his late 70s, invited an eccentric group of folks living on a neighboring vintage tugboat to come along and become his tenants.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2025
Swell, run by Maple Leaf Adventures out of Victoria, British Columbia, was built in 1912 as a wooden-hulled tugboat.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
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tugboat
noun
tug·boat
ˈtəg-ˌbōt 
: a strongly built powerful boat used for towing and pushing ships
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