Definitions for tows

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tows tow

Spelling: [toh]

IPA: /toʊ/

Tows is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in tows (ostw).

Definitions for tows

noun

1. an act or instance of towing.
2. something being towed.
3. something, as a boat or truck, that tows.
4. a rope, chain, metal bar, or other device for towing:
5. ski tow.
6. the fiber of flax, hemp, or jute prepared for spinning by scutching.
7. the shorter, less desirable flax fibers separated from line fibers in hackling.
8. synthetic filaments prior to spinning.
9. a rope.
10. a U.S. Army antitank missile, steered to its target by two thin wires connected to a computerized launcher, which is mounted on a vehicle or helicopter.

Idioms

1. in tow, in the state of being towed. under one's guidance; in one's charge. as a follower, admirer, or companion:
2. under tow, in the condition of being towed; in tow.

adjective

1. made of tow.

verb (used with object)

1. to pull or haul (a car, barge, trailer, etc.) by a rope, chain, or other device:

Origin of tows

before 1000; Middle English towen (v.), Old English togian to pull by force, drag; cognate with Middle High German zogen to draw, tug, drag. See tug

Examples for tows

The driver then got on the highway and started going "well above the speed limit," with the taxi inspector still in tow.

But the frigate which had her in tow hove in stays, and got her round.

They behaved precisely as if I had a girl in tow and wanted to be left alone.

Send Obama to the American Medical Association and the National Medical Association with Murthy in tow to make the case.

Josie Lockwood rustles into hearing with Bessie Gabriel in tow.

tow awoke with a start about four, and sprang to the window.

The rebels used, among other weapons, tow missiles recently supplied by the U.S. to Harakat Hazm.

There was a tow which came out when it was swingled, called swingle tow.

The police vehicles take off from the parking lot with Booker and Fulop in tow.

Trump even gave Jackson a personal tour of the venue, with television cameras in tow.