tow, towage
(noun) the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope; “the truck gave him a tow to the garage”
tow
(verb) drag behind; “Horses used to tow barges along the canal”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
TOW (plural TOWs)
(military) Initialism of tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided: a kind of antitank missile.
• OTW, WTO, owt, two, wot
tow (third-person singular simple present tows, present participle towing, simple past and past participle towed)
(transitive) To pull something behind one using a line or chain; to haul.
(running, cycling, motor racing, etc.) To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.
tow (plural tows)
The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
A rope or cable used in towing.
(motor racing) A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
tow (countable and uncountable, plural tows)
An untwisted bundle of fibers such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
(specifically) The short, coarse, less desirable fibers separated by hackling from the finer longer fibers (line).
• hards, oakum
• OTW, WTO, owt, two, wot
Tow (plural Tows)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Tow is the 15355th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1910 individuals. Tow is most common among White (78.69%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (13.72%) individuals.
• OTW, WTO, owt, two, wot
Source: Wiktionary
Tow, n. Etym: [OE. tow, AS. tow, akin to OD. touw, Icel. taw, v.t.]
Definition: The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
Tow, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Towed; p. pr. & vb. n. Towing.] Etym: [OE. towen, totoga to pull about, OHG. zogon, Icel. toga, AS. tohline a towline, and AS.teĂłn to draw, p.p. getogen. See Tug]
Definition: To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.
Tow, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel.taug a rope, from the same root as E.tow, v. t.]
1. A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.
2. The act of towing, or the state of being towed;-chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow.
3. That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
