tow

Meaning of tow

verb
  1. (of a motor vehicle or boat) pull (another vehicle or boat) along with a rope, chain, or tow bar.
    a pickup van towing a trailer
    a man called to tow the car away
    the authorities refused to allow the tanker to be towed into their ports
noun
  1. an act of towing a vehicle or boat.
    the cruiser got a tow from a warship after its engine failed

Old English togian ‘draw, drag’, of Germanic origin; related to tug. The noun dates from the early 17th century.

noun

the coarse and broken part of flax or hemp prepared for spinning.

Old English (recorded in towcræft ‘spinning’), of Germanic origin.

abbreviation, noun

tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided (missile).

Information about tow

  • The plural form of tow is: tows.
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Hyphenation of tow

tow

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
  • tow is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

tow synonyms

Meaning towage:

towage

Meaning exert force on (someone or something) so as to cause movement towards oneself:

pull

Meaning pull or move (something) in a specified direction:

draw

Meaning pull (someone or something) along forcefully, roughly, or with difficulty:

drag

Meaning (of a person) pull or drag with effort or force:

haul

Meaning pull (something) hard or suddenly:

tug

Meaning draw or be drawn along behind someone or something:

trail, trailing

Meaning carry or drag (a heavy or bulky object) with great effort:

lug

Meaning lift or haul (something heavy) with great effort:

heave

Meaning fish with a trawl net or seine:

trawl

Meaning raise (something) by means of ropes and pulleys:

hoist

Meaning take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship:

transport

Meaning pull with a jerk:

yank

Meaning (of a motor vehicle or boat) pull (another vehicle or boat) along with a rope, chain, or tow bar:

towing

Meaning a picture or diagram made with a pencil, pen, or crayon rather than paint:

drawing

Translation of tow

Anagrams of tow

owt, two, wot

Words that rhyme with tow

Gatow, curratow, Swatow, lingtow, bultow, Shantow, Paotow, kotow, Flotow, Rotow, aerotow, Bartow, Wartow, undertow, Stow, stow, Puestow, bestow, misbestow, prebestow, rebestow, restow, Bristow, Plaistow, Walthamstow, unstow, Bostow, Chepstow, Barstow, laystow, playstow, tattow, Gutow, kowtow

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