scowed

Updated: May 13, 2025

You cut sundry cords of wood and hauled it to the landing, and Ebenezer Johnson coolly scowed it over to his paradise at the mouth of Broad Creek. You had a little parcel of negroes, but the British war-ships, in two successive wars, lay in the river mouth and beckoned them off.

George Alfred Townsend - The Entailed Hat: Or, Patty Cannon's Times