A broad flat-bottomed boat. Du. Schouw.
1788. Between [Spires] and Carlsruhe we pass the Rhine in a common skow with oars.—Tho. Jefferson, Tour from Paris to Amsterdam, &c., April 15: ‘Works,’ ix. 393 (1859).
1819. These boats or flat bottoms, so called, are generally constructed in the form of scows or ferry flats, only much larger and planked up at their sides, and covered over at top.—Benjamin Harding, ‘Tour through the Western Country,’ p. 6 (New London, Conn.).
