tow line

[toh-lahyn]

tow·line

[toh-lahyn]
noun
a line, hawser, or the like, by which anything is or may be towed.

Origin:
1710–20; tow1 + line1; compare Old English tohlīne (see tow3)
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Tow line is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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