tows
Meaning of tows
verb, 3rd person present
- (of a motor vehicle or boat) pull (another vehicle or boat) along with a rope, chain, or tow bar.
a pickup van towing a trailer
a man called to tow the car away
the authorities refused to allow the tanker to be towed into their ports
Old English togian ‘draw, drag’, of Germanic origin; related to tug. The noun dates from the early 17th century.
noun
the coarse and broken part of flax or hemp prepared for spinning.
Old English (recorded in towcræft ‘spinning’), of Germanic origin.
abbreviation, plural noun
tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided (missile).
Information about tows
- The singular form of tows is: tow.
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Hyphenation of tows
tows
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- tows is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
tows synonyms
Meaning exert force on (someone or something) so as to cause movement towards oneself:
Meaning pull or move (something) in a specified direction:
Meaning pull (someone or something) along forcefully, roughly, or with difficulty:
Meaning (of a person) pull or drag with effort or force:
Meaning pull (something) hard or suddenly:
Meaning draw or be drawn along behind someone or something:
Meaning carry or drag (a heavy or bulky object) with great effort:
Meaning lift or haul (something heavy) with great effort:
Meaning fish with a trawl net or seine:
Meaning raise (something) by means of ropes and pulleys:
Meaning take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship:
Meaning pull with a jerk:
Anagrams of tows
owts, sowt, Stow, stow, swot, twos, wost, wots
Words that rhyme with tows
kotows, undertows, bestows, misbestows, stows, unstows, tattows, kowtows
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