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▪ I. towing, vbl. n.1|ˈtəʊɪŋ|
[f. tow v.1 + -ing1.]
a. The action of tow v.1; esp. the dragging of a boat or ship by a tow-line; also, the drawing of a fine net behind a boat or other vessel for the capture of marine zoological specimens, and in pl. the proceeds of this, the specimens captured.
1494[see tow v.1 1]. 1611[see towage 2]. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 168 Sir Richard Levison,..with towing, got out the Warspite, the Defiance, the Swiftsure, the Marline. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 325 By the help of towing and setting as well as they could, they came to a flatter shore. 1857C. Gribble in Merc. Marine Mag. (1858) V. 7 They monopolize the towing in and out. 1887Smithsonian Rep. II. 135 The surface towings he obtained are very rich in interesting forms.
b. attrib., as towing-banquette, towing barge, towing-bitts, towing bollard, towing-boom, towing bracket, towing-gear, towing-vessel; towing-bridle (bridle n. 5 a), a stout chain, cable, or iron rail secured at the ends, with a towing-hook to which the tow-line is attached; towing-lights n. pl., white lights carried one above another by a vessel which has another or others in tow (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895); towing-net = tow-net; towing-path = tow-path; towing-post: see quot.; towing-rope = tow-rope; towing-timber = towing-post.
1791Rep. Navig. Thames & Isis, Estimate 4 A Loop of the River cut through, a *Towing-Banquete formed, and Water deepened, {pstlg}90.
1889Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. xii. 132 Advantage is taken of the hollow *towing bollards..and the mast..to utilise these also as uptakes.
1897G. Grenfell in Sir H. Johnston Life (1908) I. xii. 258 [It] had been firmly secured to the after bollards, as well as to the *towing-boom forward.
1959*Towing bracket [see little man 2]. 1977West Briton 25 Aug. 17/1 (Advt.), All types of caravan repairs undertaken,..towing brackets supplied and fitted.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Towing-bridle, a stout chain, with a hook at each end, for attaching a tow-rope to; also, a large towing-hook in the bight of the chain.
1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. viii. (ed. 3) 205, I began to be afraid that something must have gone wrong with the *towing-gear.
1867*Towing-hook [see towing-bridle].
1816Tuckey Narr. Exped. R. Zaire i. (1818) 11 The *towing-net was now..tolerably successful, taking up from time to time various species of mollusca.
1726Lond. Gaz. No. 6447/7 Using for *Towing or Haleing-Paths. 1795J. Phillips Hist. Inland Navig. Add. 100 The towing path of this canal may be used by occupiers of lands as a bridle-way. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. xii. 102 A cottage which stood alone, close to the towing-path of the canal.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Towing-post, a substantial timber fixed through the deck of a steam-tug for making the tow-rope fast to. Also, a similar post in canal barges to keep the tow-line up clear of the path.
1838Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 322/1 Whether it was feasible without a *towing-rope to get the barge through the water-way. 1882E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. 315 A towing rope was fastened to the top of the mast.
1834Oxf. Univ. Mag. I. 308 The recent introduction of steam *towing-vessels.
▪ II. towing
see also tow v.3 and v.4. |