oyster-scow

Updated: June 14, 2025

"I'd rather go to sea in a diving-bell!" said one, as the waves dashed over the pilot-house, and the little craft seemed buried in water. "Give me an oyster-scow!" cried another, "anything! only let it be wood, and something that will float over, instead of under the water!"

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863