Definitions of Tow [ʊ]

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Definition of 'Tow'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) tow
to pull or haul (a car, barge, trailer, etc.) by a rope, chain, or other device.

2. (n.) tow
an act or instance of towing.

3.  tow
something being towed.

4.  tow
something, as a boat or truck, that tows.

5.  tow
a rope, chain, metal bar, or other device for towing.

6.  tow
in tow,

7.  tow
in the state of being towed.

8.  tow
under one's guidance; in one's charge.

9.  tow
as a follower, admirer, or companion.

10.  tow
under tow, in the condition of being towed; in tow.

11. (n.) tow
the fiber of flax, hemp, or jute prepared for spinning by scutching.

12.  tow
the shorter, less desirable fibers of flax, hemp, or jute separated in scutching and used for twine, yarn, etc.

13.  tow
yarn or fabric made from this.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME; OE tōw- (in tōwlīc pertaining to thread, tōwhūs spinning house); akin to OS

Definition of 'Tow'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) tow, towage
the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope
"the truck gave him a tow to the garage"

2. (verb) tow
drag behind
"Horses used to tow barges along the canal"

Definition of 'Tow'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) tow
to pull a vehicle behind another vehicle
They had to tow the car home.

Definition of 'Tow'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Tow
the coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle

2. (verb) Tow
to draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope

3. (verb) Tow
a rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope

4. (verb) Tow
the act of towing, or the state of being towed; --chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow

5. (verb) Tow
that which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect

Translation of 'Tow'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to pull (a ship, barge, car, trailer etc) by a rope, chain or cable The tugboat towed the ship out of the harbour; The car broke down and had to be towed to the garage.
Afrikaans: insleep	Arabic: يَقْطُر، يَجُر	Bulgarian: тегля
Brazilian: rebocar	Czech: vléci	German: (ab-)schleppen
Danish: slæbe; trække	Greek: ρυμουλκώ	Spanish: remolcar
Estonian: pukseerima	Farsi: کشیدن؛ بکسل کردن	Finnish: hinata
French: remorquer	Hebrew: לִגרוֹר	Hindi: रस्सी से खींच
Croatian: vući, tegliti	Hungarian: vontat	Indonesian: menarik
Icelandic: draga	Italian: rimorchiare, trainare	Japanese: 綱で引く
Korean: 견인하다	Lithuanian: vilkti	Latvian: ņemt tauvā; vilkt
Malay: menunda	Dutch: slepen	Norwegian: slepe, taue, buksere
Polish: holować	Persian: کشیدن؛ بکسل کردن	Pashto: كشول، راكښل ( په تيره بيا
Portuguese: rebocar	Romanian: a remorca	Russian: буксировать
Slovak: vliecť, ťahať	Slovenian: vleči z vrvjo	Serbian: šlepovati
Swedish: bogsera	Thai: พ่วง	Turkish: çekmek
Taiwanese: 牽引，拖，拉	Ukrainian: тягти на линві; буксирува	Urdu: رسي وغيرہ سے کھينچنا
Vietnamese: kéo đi	Chinese: 牵引，拖，拉
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