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Stranded motorist's need
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tow
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB away ▪ Dozens of motorists faced fines of £100 to recover parked cars which were towed away . ▪ The blue hatchback was briefly searched in the parking lot, and then towed away by authorities. ▪ A feeble little hatchback ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tow \Tow\, n. [Cf. Icel. taug a rope, from the same root as E. tow, v. t.] A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope. The act of towing, or the state of being towed; -- chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow. That which ...
Usage examples of tow.
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE Harry went back aboard Bucephalas to assess the damage, with James and Matthew Caufield in tow.
The fairing for the towed array extended longitudinally aft from the leading edge of the sail to the stern.
With few wasted motions, Ake tied Ray to his line and then began towing him back toward the hatch.
Each was authorized to use as much time each day after regular working hours as he considered necessary to conduct his training, which would not be limited to docking and undocking, anchoring and unanchoring, but would include towing and being towed, fueling and provisioning while under way, and launch and recovery.
Only Temith would decide, not only to come back, but with a Belthasian guard and an Animist in tow.
Machen arrived, because his cell was detached from its position at a bay on the farthest spar of Idlewild and towed around the side of the station by Arachno service personnel, at the ends of their long lines.
The trader was towed clear of the inside harbour before being allowed to stretch sails, flanked by Imperial galleys that would provide escort crossing Aren Bay.
He squared his shoulders in the new blue livery, drew his whip downwards across the towing horse and out into the waters slipped the Colleen Bawn at a good four miles an hour.
Since this was a shore-to-shore operation mounted in Corsica, the men were lifted in beaching craft and LCPRs towed by motor launches.
The short drop downriver to the loading wharf at Woolwich passed off uneventfully, and Lieutenant Kaye by what miracle no one knew was there before them, and had bespoke a berth and loaders, even a launch to help tow and nudge the Biter in, all sail doused beforehand, no need for kedges, all smart and shipshape enough for the greatest stickler in the land.
It was five nights later, in fact, that Will and Sam saw the ship again, after Biter had limped to the Nore and then been towed by dockyard pull boats up to Deptford.
The list was now proclaimed to be full, and the gondolas were towed off, as before, towards the starting point, leaving the place beneath the stern of the Bucentaur, vacant.
Except by the time the county tow showed up to haul it away, neither Ennis Rafferty nor Curtis Wilcox believed it was a Buick at all.
Trooper Wilcox, he got about three-quarters of an hour with that Buick before the county tow showed up with its orange light flashing.
Curtis Wilcox squirming in his seat but never taking his eyes off the Buick being towed along in front of him.