TOW
\tˈə͡ʊ], \tˈəʊ], \t_ˈəʊ]\
Definitions of TOW
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope; "the truck gave him a tow to the garage"
By Princeton University
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the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope; "the truck gave him a tow to the garage"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.
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A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.
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That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.
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The act of towing, or the state of being towed; -chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow.
By Oddity Software
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To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.
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A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.
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That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.
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The act of towing, or the state of being towed; -chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow.
By Noah Webster.
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The coarse part of flax or hemp; something dragged, as through water by a rope; act of dragging; state of being dragged.
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To drag, as a vessel, through the water by means of a rope.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To tug or pull a vessel through the water with a rope.
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Orig. a rope for towing with: the coarse part of flax or hemp.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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