towline

[ toh-lahyn ]

/ ˈtoʊˌlaɪn /

a line, hawser, or the like, by which anything is or may be towed.

Origin of towline

1710–20; tow¹ + line¹; compare Old English tohlīne (see tow³)

There Dan joined him with the towline, and the two pulled the launch up to the 81 nearest wharf.

Four Afloat |Ralph Henry Barbour
In the Hsintan rapid the towline parted, and his junk was smashed to pieces by the rocks, and all that he possessed destroyed.

An Australian in China |George Ernest Morrison
Ought they to cut the towline, get up a bit of a sail, and endeavor to make the north shore of the lake?

Geoffrey Hampstead |Thomas Stinson Jarvis
It was the duty of the man in the bow to regulate the towline according to circumstances.

Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life |Thomas Wallace Knox

He forgot that he was attached by the left shoulder to the towline.

South from Hudson Bay |E. C. [Ethel Claire] Brill

towline

/ (ˈtəʊˌlaɪn) /

another name for towrope