Definitions for towline

towline tow·line

Spelling: [toh-lahyn]
IPA: /ˈtoʊˌlaɪn/

Towline is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in towline (eilnotw).

Definitions for towline

noun

  1. a line, hawser, or the like, by which anything is or may be towed.

Origin of towline

1710-20; tow1 + line1; compare Old English tohlīne (see tow3)

Examples for towline

The combination always reminds me of a rather stylish tug-boat with its towline attached to a scow on a mud-flat.

At the same moment, he cut the towline and ordered the men on the cutter to return and capture the guard near the Southfield.

In the darkness, and the further obscurity caused by the flying water, the bowsprit had fouled the towline.

He forgot that he was attached by the left shoulder to the towline.

At the end of the towline we nosed along in perfect complacency.

Ought they to cut the towline, throw out the inside ballast, and cut away the mast to ease the straining at the seams?

I'm captain at this end of the towline, and I swear he shall go in.

A couple of fairish paddles were chipped out of bits of driftwood, and a towline a hundred feet long was made of lariats.

Far from guessing that the towline had snapped, she was not aware that there was one.

Ought they to cut the towline, get up a bit of a sail, and endeavor to make the north shore of the lake?

Word Value for towline
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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