tow

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tow1

▶verb use a vehicle or boat to pull (another vehicle or boat) along. ▶noun an act of towing.

– phrases
in tow

• 1 (also on tow) being towed.

• 2 accompanying or following someone.

– derivatives
towable adjective,
towage noun.

– origin OE togian ‘draw, drag’, of Gmc origin; rel. to tug.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tow2

▶noun

• 1 the coarse and broken part of flax or hemp prepared for spinning.

• 2 a bundle of untwisted natural or man-made fibres.

– derivatives
towy adjective.

– origin OE (recorded in towcræft ‘spinning’), of Gmc origin.

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TOW

▶abbreviation tube-launched, optically guided, wire-guided (missile).