tugboat的意思|tugboat的解释-里氏词典

tugboat ['tʌgbәut]

n. 拖船

[化] 拖轮

tugboat

[ noun ]
a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
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Tugboat \Tug"boat`\, n.
See {Tug}, n., 3.

Tug \Tug\, n.
1. A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest
called tug of war; a supreme effort.

At the tug he falls,
Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
--Dryden.

2. A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy
articles. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

3. (Naut.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels;
-- called also {steam tug}, {tugboat}, and {towboat}.

4. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.

5. (Mining.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a
tackle is affixed.

{Tug iron}, an iron hook or button to which a tug or trace
may be attached, as on the shaft of a wagon.

Zapata Gulf Pacific Corp. won a $16.2 million Navy contract for tugboat services.
At issue are concessions the tugboat companies are demanding from the approximately 2,500 affected tugboat and barge workers.
At issue are concessions the tugboat companies are demanding from the approximately 2,500 affected tugboat and barge workers.
State officials said the hole was caused by a tugboat attempting to position the barge, but Coast Guard officials couldn't confirm that.
One of the West Coast's largest shipbuilding and tugboat companies emerged from federal bankruptcy protection Tuesday when family ownership was transferred to employees.
"Beauty is all in the eye of the beholder, whether it's a cat or a tugboat or a lady," said the 74-year-old Parks.
"We contacted the owners in Washington and they confirmed they were repossessing the tugboat due to a lack of payments by the lessee," Crispino said.
In the past, FDIC liquidators have come across such failed-bank assets as a sunken tugboat, a goat dairy farm, an X-rated movie and a thoroughbred stud with a venereal disease.
Hansen said the ship was apparently saved from sinking by new pumps brought by a Soviet tugboat and a Norwegian helicopter after others broke down. "It looks like there is enough new pumping equipment aboard to keep it afloat," he said.
The pilot, Michael B. Gale, frantically radioed the tugboat.
The 40-foot whale, first reported by a tugboat crew, was last seen just before nightfall Monday at the Delaware Memorial Bridge, which crosses the Delaware River about 25 miles south of Philadelphia, officials said.
Sea patrol aircraft, a navy corvette and a tugboat were used to intercept the Costa de Irlanda in the Gulf of Gascogne, about 35 miles from the Atlantic coast, maritime authorities said in a communique.
Soon after the platform attack, the Iran gunboats fired on a U.S. tugboat, but it too was not hit.
Egyptian tugboat crews and rescue teams on Thursday refloated a cargo ship that ran aground and ended the danger of polluting the Red Sea or fragile coral reefs with oil or phosphate spills, authorities said.
The Greek tanker Shinoussa collided with two of three barges being towed by the tugboat, Chandy N, through the ship channel in the bay.
In the most serious incident, the attack submarine USS Houston snagged a towing cable of the commercial tugboat Barcona off Long Beach last month.
Clark said some tires are chipped and used in highway asphalt. Others are made into truck floor mats, tugboat bumpers and other products.
A tugboat and a freighter collided today on the Mississippi, sinking at least three grain barges and setting loose up to 14 others, the Coast Guard said.
They did not know whether the bodies were those of the tugboat crew, or of others missing in Saturday's raid on Iran's Larak island terminal in the Strait of Hormuz.
The seven others from the Dominican-registered barge and tugboat scrambled ashore in an area lined with freight docks and were at large late Saturday, Parris said.
The blasts today partially sunk the 235,000-ton Barcelona and scuttled a Norwegian-flag salvage tugboat that was alongside, according to shipping executives, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
It also was blamed for the partial collapse of the roof at Northline Mall in Houston and for capsizing a tugboat in Galveston Bay.
Iraq said its warplanes attacked a tanker off Iran's Persian Gulf coast at dawn today, and shipping sources said two seamen were killed in an earlier Iraqi air strike on a salvage tugboat.
With former Miss America host Bert Parks at the helm as emcee, a 105-foot, blue-and-white tugboat was crowned the nation's most beautiful tug on Wednesday.
Plans to raise a tugboat that sank in the St. Johns River were postponed Saturday night, but only after workers made sure no more diesel fuel was leaking from the 800-ton vessel, officials said.
When an Iranian tugboat at Sirri radioed the cruiser Wainwright for permission to pick up survivors in the water, Capt.
The wreckage was located by a chartered salvage tugboat, said the salvage experts, speaking on condition of anonymity.
It was then that a tugboat captain noticed oil coming from the tanker, the pilot said.
He was noticed after dawn by a tugboat.
The World Prodigy, escorted by a tugboat with pollution gear aboard, awaited high tide outside New York Harbor to enter a drydock, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Wayne Wertz.

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