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Definition of Tow car
1. Noun. A truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tow Car
Literary usage of Tow car
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"In this way, wh the bar turns, it moves the tie rod. and the tow car follows its
leader. Fig. 9: A dolly for towing In cars where ..."
2. Automobile Repairshop Short-cuts: Over 1500 Time and Labor-saving Kinks by Motor World (1918)
"662) tow car DEVICE A light, but extremely strong, framework for attaching the
block and tackle to the rear of the tow car may be constructed as illustrated ..."
3. Course in Modern Production Methods by Business Training Corporation (1918)
"VIOLATION OF RULE COSTS A LIFE Engine was pulling a tow car in the mill yard.
Workman jumped on the foot board of the engine and attempted to step onto the ..."
4. Electrical Engineer (1890)
"142 ran 3098 miles, of which 2247 miles was with a tow car ; this was about the
average. From this a car runs 103 miles a day ; train 75 miles per day. ..."
5. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1919)
"... to the tow car. Flg. 3—A temporary spring repair: In fig. 3 is shown how a
temporary repair was made upon a spring whose three lower leave» were broken ..."
6. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1916)
"... the other pulley fastened to the car that is in difficulty and the free end
of the rope tied to the tow car An ejector pump, operated by compressed air, ..."
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