tugboat

1. noun, tug; 2. attributive

1.
“There was people floating in the water there and everything. Nobody drowned … Sarah’s husband, he was a captain here. He almost drowned, but they did save him. I think they took him down into the tugboat ’cause it was warmer in there and put the heat to him.”

“One Christmas Day, I think there was twenty people ended up in the hole out here when the ice let go and the horse and everybody went in. We were going out to meet the tugboat, and the ice hadn’t been froze that long, and it was a little too hard, and it just let go. And everybody went in, but everybody got out except the horse.”

“Well it was like a houseboat, but they towed it with a barge. You know they were just built just literally square, more rectangle, long and so wide, but you had to be towed by like a motor boat or a tugboat. Well they have one in Alexandria Bay there at the boat museum.”

2.
“The fellow who just left here, they had a big farm, and his grandfather was a tugboat man, and he had two tugs. He brought them over from England.”