I was scraping out a living running in-system ore boats and garbage scows.
No garbage scows are dumping stuff into the water.
"If you have a good steady wind behind you, you can loft your canvas and leave them wallowing like garbage scows."
At times, garbage scows have been used to secretly transport illegal narcotics.
School was let out early so that children could help their parents sort through what the garbage scows had brought that day.
"Even the Klingons must have freighters and tugs and garbage scows."
He worked at the Fresh Kills landfill on the island, where he guided garbage scows.
They went out in the sea-harvest boats that made old-fashioned garbage scows seem like dream ships.
Rats from all over the city came to Rikers Island, arriving on the fleets of garbage scows.
The garbage scows were plying the canal at the end of our street, collecting the night's heaps of refuse.