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Towing vbl. sb.1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Towing vbl. sb.1 [f. TOW v.1 + -ING1.] The action of TOW v.1; esp. the dragging of a boat or ship by a tow-line; also, the drawing of a fine net behind a boat or other vessel for the capture of marine zoological specimens, and in pl. the proceeds of this, the specimens captured.

1 1494.  [see TOW v.1 1].

2 1611.  [see TOWAGE 2].

3 1617.  Moryson, Itin., II. 168. Sir Richard Levison,… with towing, got out the Warspite, the Defiance, the Swiftsure, the Marline.

4 1725.  De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 325. By the help of towing and setting as well as they could, they came io a flatter shore.

5 1857.  C. Gribble, in Merc. Marine Mag. (1858), V. 7. They monopolize the towing in and out.

6 1887.  Smithsonian Rep., II. 135. The surface towings he obtained are very rich in interesting forms.

7   b.  attrib., as towing-banquette, barge, -bitts, bollard, -boom, -gear, -vessel; towing-bridle (BRIDLE sb. 5 a), a stout chain, cable, or iron rail secured at the ends, with a towing-hook to which the tow-line is attached; towing-lights sb. pl., white lights carried one above another by a vessel which has another or others in tow (Funk’s Stand. Dict., 1895); towing-net = TOW-NET; towing-path = TOW-PATH; towing-post: see quot.; towing-rope = TOW-ROPE; towing-timber = towing-post.

8 1791.  Rep. Navig. Thames & Isis, Estimate, 4. A Loop of the River cut through, a *Towing-Banquete formed, and Water deepened, £90.

9 1889.  Welch, Text Bk. Naval Archit., xii. 132. Advantage is taken of the hollow *towing bollards … and the mast … to utilise these also as uptakes.

10 1897.  G. Grenfell, in Sir H. Johnston, Life (1908), I. xii. 258. [It] had been firmly secured to the after bollards, as well as to the *towing-boom forward.

11 1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., *Towing-bridle, a stout chain, with a hook at each end, for attaching a tow-rope to; also, a large towing-hook in the bight of the chain.

12 1857.  Dufferin, Lett. High Lat., viii. (ed. 3), 205. I began to be afraid that something must have gone wrong with the *towing-gear.

13 1816.  Tuckey, Narr. Exped. R. Zaire, i. (1818), 11. The *towing-net was now … tolerably successful, taking up from time to time various species of mollusca.

14 1726.  Lond. Gaz., No. 6447/7. Using for *Towing or Haleing-Paths.

15 1795.  J. Phillips, Hist. Inland Navig., Add. 100. The towing path of this canal may be used by occupiers of lands as a bridle-way.

16 1867.  Trollope, Chron. Barset, I. xii. 102. A cottage which stood alone, close to the towing-path of the canal.

17 1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., *Towing-post, a substantial timber fixed through the deck of a steam-tug for making the tow-rope fast to. Also, a similar post in canal barges to keep the tow-line up clear of the path.

18 1838.  Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., I. 322/1. Whether it was feasible without a *towing-rope to get the barge through the water-way.

19 1882.  E. O’Donovan, Merv Oasis, I. 315. A towing rope was fastened to the top of the mast.

20 1834.  Oxf. Univ. Mag., I. 308. The recent introduction of steam *towing-vessels.

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  Towing, vbl. sb.2, 3: see TOW v.3, 4.

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