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n. A bar, or ball, usually at the rear of a vehicle, where a trailer, or caravan or other similar item can be attached and towed.
Usage examples of "tow bar".
It gave me a new clue: that second motor home must be pulling a jeep on a tow bar like they often do.
The nose-wheel was jammed against the deck-edge combing andcomthe nose-tow bar was twisted.
At the top of that hill the Blitz is waiting with two hundred feet of steel cable fastened to its tow bar.
He swung in front of the plane and backed a tow bar toward the nose wheel.
It just stayed there, not a foot behind the Pitts' rudder, as if connected with a tow bar.
He disconnected the tow bar and the two officers climbed out into the cold night air.
The rear window was unshuttered, providing a view of the supplies and equipment trailer rocking and bumping at the end of its tow bar, with the Martian wilderness creeping by behind.
Toll Warson got up on the tow bar and began chatting with the driver.
He would only have to ease the plane forward the short distance and the shuttle would engage the tow bar on the aircraft's nose-wheel assembly.
We'd rigged up a tow bar between the vehicles which carried messages from our van's computer to the one working computer looted from the Eratothenes Base and now mounted in the rover.
A North American technician, who Konzaki had told them had embassy security clearance, attached a truck's tow bar to the tail of the Air Force jet.
An aircraft tractor at the end of the ramp pulled the PBM out of the water by the cable far enough up the ramp so that it could back up to the PBM and hook up a rigid tow bar.