tow-rope

As though in answer, Corliss swung down upon them with the tow-rope.

CHAPTER 30 2010

When the tow-rope releases with a snap, you ride the thermals between the Snake and Salt ranges.

Jackson Hole Benjamin Percy 2011

She glanced quickly and saw Del Bishop guiding a poling-boat against the current, and Corliss on the bank, bending to the tow-rope.

CHAPTER 30 2010

A tow-rope was requisitioned from an up-coming boat, and a pair of horses from a pack-train on the bank, and the ghastly jetsam hauled ashore.

CHAPTER 3 2010

The glider is connected by a long tow-rope to an ultra-light plane piloted by his wife.

Jackson Hole Benjamin Percy 2011

The spirit of the Chinese was broken, and so docile did they become that ere we made San Rafael they were out with the tow-rope, Yellow

White and Yellow 2010

We got out a tow-rope whenever the weather permitted, but that did not often happen, and how we two parties kept within the same horizon, as we did, He, who mercifully permitted it to be so for our consolation, only knows.

The Wreck of the Golden Mary, by Charles Dickens 2004

We made a shift, with much labour and trouble, to got near enough to one another to divide the blue-lights (they were no use after that night, for the sea-water soon got at them), and to get a tow-rope out between us.

The Wreck of the Golden Mary, by Charles Dickens 2004

He spread the sea-power of two nations in a stately crescent, double-lined (as the moon is doubled when beheld through fine plate-glass) — a noble sight, a paramount temptation for the British tow-rope.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

The river here is very narrow, and even in what are called still places, the current is very strong, and often obliged them to haul the boat along by the reeds on the banks, or to hand a tow-rope ashore.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004