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towline
[ toh-lahyn ]
noun
- a line, hawser, or the like, by which anything is or may be towed.
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A couple of fairish paddles were chipped out of bits of driftwood, and a towline a hundred feet long was made of lariats.
I'm captain at this end of the towline, and I swear he shall go in.
The combination always reminds me of a rather stylish tug-boat with its towline attached to a scow on a mud-flat.
The Champion was coming, and he swam into her path, barely missing a clutch at the steel towline whizzing past him.
We had seven canines—three pairs and a leader—pulling upon a deerskin towline fastened to a thole-pin.
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