SCOW

PRONUNCIATION: (skou)

MEANING: noun: A flat-bottomed boat with square ends.

ETYMOLOGY: From Dutch schouw (ferryboat). Earliest documented use: 1524.
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SCOWN - lightly sweetened biscuits, often taken with tea

SCROW - fornication in the pluperfect subjunctive

SACOW - New England anarchist, executed for murder in the 1920s along with his associate Vanzetti