Tow

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  • noun. Coarse broken flax or hemp fiber.
  • noun. A continuous untwisted bundle of manufactured fibers.
  • transitive verb. To draw or pull behind by a chain or line: synonym: pull.
  • noun. The act or an instance of towing.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
  • noun. Something, such as a barge or car, that is towed.
  • noun. A rope or cable used in towing.
  • idiom. (in tow) In a condition of being towed.
  • idiom. (in tow) Under close guidance; in one's charge.
  • idiom. (in tow) As a companion or follower.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make fluffy by picking to pieces, as hair.
  • To pull; draw; haul; especially, to drag through the water by means of a rope or chain: as, to tow a small boat astern; to tow a vessel into harbor.
  • To dredge with a towing-net. See towing, n., 2.
  • noun. The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
  • noun. In hecking, a quantity of hemp fibers sufficient for spinning a yarn 160 fathoms long. These fibers are passed twice through the heckle, and are then tied up into a bundle, which weighs about 3½ pounds.
  • An obsolete or dialectal form of tough.
  • noun. A rope.
  • noun. The act of towing, or the state of being towed: generally with in: as, to take a disabled vessel in tow.
  • noun. A vessel or number of vessels that are being towed.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
  • noun. A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.
  • noun. The act of towing, or the state of being towed; -- chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow.
  • noun. That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.
  • transitive verb. To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An untwisted bundle of fibers such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
  • verb. To pull something behind one using a line or chain; to haul.
  • noun. The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
  • noun. Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
  • noun. Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
  • noun. A rope or cable used in towing.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope
  • verb. drag behind
  • cross-reference
    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    draw  haul  haulage  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Au  Beau  Bio  Bo  Bordeaux  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cotton  flax  hemp  wool  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    drag  draw  
    verb-form
    towed  towing  tows