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Definition of Towlines
1. towline [n] - See also: towline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Towlines
Literary usage of Towlines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot by George Byron Merrick (1909)
"It was the work of a few minutes only to run alongside, make fast the towlines,
and while the steamer was on her way up river, thirty or forty men pitched ..."
2. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1871)
"Jack found a shingle schooner with paper sails adrift in the tub, and two
canal-boats, whittled out of pine, with thread for towlines, made fast to pins ..."
3. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"For this reason and because cable-laid rope, especially when new, is difficult
to handle, it has been suggested that all manilla hawsers and towlines should ..."
4. A Collection of the Public General Statutes Passed in the ... Year of the by Great Britain (1847)
"Every Vessel in the Harbour or Dock or at or near Vessels to have the Pier shall
have substantial Hawsers, towlines, and Fasts Hawsers, &c. fixed to the ..."
5. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce, United States Naval Academy (1898)
"If A is a small low powered vessel and B much larger and more powerful, B might
tow A with short towlines from both quarters. If the course steered by the ..."
6. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1884)
"If A is a small low powered vessel and B much larger and more powerful, B might
tow A with short towlines from both quarters. Chasing-. ..."
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