Dictionary Entry
tow
tow is a 3-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
- 2transitive verb
To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.
- 3transitive verb
A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.
- 4transitive verb
The act of towing, or the state of being towed; --chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow.
- 5transitive verb
That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.
- 6noun
the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope
"the truck gave him a tow to the garage"
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- 7verb
drag behind
"Horses used to tow barges along the canal"
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