[78-L] Darwin was wrong

[Bud Black]

How about a "tow boat," sometimes confused with a "tug boat?"  A towboat
pushes the barges (which are designated as "tows.")  Confusing?

Bud 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: David Lennick
Date: 3/17/2009 10:32:56 PM
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: Re: [78-L] Darwin was wrong
 
tote
1 /to?t/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [toht] Show IPA ,verb, tot?ed, tot?ing,
noun
–verb (used with object)
1. to carry, as on one's back or in one's arms: to tote a bundle.
2. to carry on one's person: to tote a gun.
3. to transport or convey, as on a vehicle or boat.
 
ON a boat. Not to tote a boat.
 
–noun
4. the act or course of toting.
5. something that is toted.
6. tote bag.
 
tote
2 /to?t/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [toht] Show IPA ,
–verb (used with object), tot?ed, tot?ing.
Informal. to add up; total.
 
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tote
 
Webster's gives as a second meaning "haul, convey"..so if one man can do it,
then I guess he's entitled to git a little drunk (and land in jail).
 
dl
 
Michael Biel wrote:
> David Lennick wrote:
>> Hey..somebody tell Oscar that you can't tote a barge.
>>
>> dl
>
> The HELL you can't!  On a canal and many rivers that was about the ONLY
> way to move a barge.  They didn't have motors.  They didn't have
> tugboats.  People or horses towed barges by ropes to them on the "Tow
> Paths" along the banks.  Why else do you think those pathways were
> called TOW Paths???????  Barges could also be pushed by pole walkers on
> board the barge if the water was shallow.  Remember how this was done in
> the Davy Crockett/Mike Fink films?
>
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