tow line

Just one day after leaving the dock, the tow line parted.

Two frightened older women clung to his tow line and each other.

After a tow line broke, arrival was delayed still further.

The tow line snapped when a tug was taking it out to sea.

Drop it over the side on a tow line.

In a two hour operation she broke free from her tow line and smashed into the dock wall twice.

The ship would sail around the iceberg and pay out a tow line.

His 35-foot cabin cruiser got caught on the tow line and flipped over.

Each dog is attached to the tow line twice.

The geometry of the towing line must have a well-defined value.

The tow line had been made by twisting together three ordinary hawsers.

Grabbing at the Zodiac's tow line, he held himself against the river for a moment, getting his breath back.

When north of the Azores in a strong storm, the tow line snapped.

During the voyage she was allowed to drop her tow lines from the tug and continue alone under wind power.

However, the tow line held, and the Danmark did not go adrift.

Stewart gave the command for "slow ahead" until the slack was taken up from the tow lines.

Tow lines were attached, and the effort to pull U-20 off the shoal began at the first high tide.

We moored his own singleship to the tow line, just in case something failed on the way home.

"He had his own singleship on a tow line.

He then swings around the boat and under the net where the other deck hands tosses him a tow line.

The tow line has more "give" to it than a recovery net, reducing the likelihood of damage.

Parr broke away from the tow line on January 2nd in a heavy gale.

A tow line stretched off into the gloom ahead, probably being pulled by an unseen diver.

"Am I to understand, you intend to use the mooring cables as towing lines?"

The slack went out of the tow line, and the barge lurched into motion.