towage

Example Sentences

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The brokerage sees the merger as creating Indonesia’s largest listed towage and pilotage platform.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Mostly to keep themselves occupied, they hunted paymetal, taking only the very best that they could find, to keep the towage mass down.

From The Planet Strappers by Gallun, Raymond Z.

In the latter methods these losses amount to an important fraction of the total power; they rarely, if ever, fall below a total of 25 per cent., and probably in towage exceed 50 per cent.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.

An' if I was you, I'd find out how much o' this two thousand dollars' towage he's goin' to distribute to his crew.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Grant, Gordon

We have from time to time given accounts in this journal of the system of towage by hauling on a submerged wire rope, first experimented upon by Baron O. De Mesnil and Mr. Max Eyth.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various