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pull-boat
pull-boat n.
Brit. 
/ˈpʊlbəʊt/
, /ˈpʊlbəʊt/U.S. /ˈpʊlˌboʊt/
(a) a boat propelled by pulling on a rope; (b) U.S. regional (chiefly southern), a flat-bottomed boat with a small engine, used for pulling logs, esp. through a swamp./ˈpʊlˌboʊt/ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge or lighter with lifting machinery
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pull-boat1883
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > canal boat > towed by man or horses
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1883 G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Jan. 172/2 It is a treat to see a powerful young Dutchwoman handle a rope on a pull-boat.
1895 N.Y. Times 24 Nov. 28/2 A system in common use in the cypress swamps of the South is what is known among lumbermen as a ‘pull boat’... The one-inch cable is pulled out into the swamp, and the logs are hauled in by the winding of the drum.
1933 M. K. Rawlings South Moon 63 The drum on the pull-boat chattered, the gears ground and creaked.
2005 M. Saikku This Delta, This Land vi. 185 Southern float logging was largely replaced in the 1890s by the pull boat method: a stationary engine, mounted on a barge, skidded the logs over the soft surface of the bottomlands.
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