Definition of Towlines

1. Noun. (plural of towline) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Towlines

1. towline [n] - See also: towline

Lexicographical Neighbors of Towlines

towier
towies
towiest
towilly
towind
towing
towing bitt
towing line
towing path
towing rope
towings
towkay
towkays
towline
towlines (current term)
towmon
towmond
towmonds
towmons
towmont
towmonts
town
town-and-gown
town and gown
town ball
town bicycle
town bicycles
town car
town cars

Literary usage of Towlines

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot by George Byron Merrick (1909)
"It was the work of a few minutes only to run alongside, make fast the towlines, and while the steamer was on her way up river, thirty or forty men pitched ..."

2. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1871)
"Jack found a shingle schooner with paper sails adrift in the tub, and two canal-boats, whittled out of pine, with thread for towlines, made fast to pins ..."

3. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"For this reason and because cable-laid rope, especially when new, is difficult to handle, it has been suggested that all manilla hawsers and towlines should ..."

4. A Collection of the Public General Statutes Passed in the ... Year of the by Great Britain (1847)
"Every Vessel in the Harbour or Dock or at or near Vessels to have the Pier shall have substantial Hawsers, towlines, and Fasts Hawsers, &c. fixed to the ..."

5. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce, United States Naval Academy (1898)
"If A is a small low powered vessel and B much larger and more powerful, B might tow A with short towlines from both quarters. If the course steered by the ..."

6. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1884)
"If A is a small low powered vessel and B much larger and more powerful, B might tow A with short towlines from both quarters. Chasing-. ..."

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