(of a motor vehicle or boat) pull (another vehicle or boat) along with a rope, chain, or tow bar

a pickup van towing a trailer

a man called to tow the car away

the authorities refused to allow the tanker to be towed into their ports

an act of towing a vehicle or boat

the cruiser got a tow from a warship after its engine failed

the coarse and broken part of flax or hemp prepared for spinning