Coyote vs Tugboat - What's the difference?
coyote | tugboat |
Canis latrans , a species of canine native to North America.
* 1824 , William Bullock, Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico , p. 119
A smuggler of illegal immigrants across the land border from Mexico into the United States of America.
To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.
A small, powerful boat (a "tugship" in other languages) used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.
As nouns the difference between coyote and tugboat
is that coyote is canis latrans , a species of canine native to north america while tugboat is a small, powerful boat (a "tugship" in other languages) used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.As a verb coyote
is to prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.coyote
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Alternative forms
* cayeute, cayota, cayote, coyoto (all obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte , or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.
