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
He's got to be a sharp on towage, because he's got to take risks in storms that drive an ocean-going tug to port.
From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
All he had to do was to race off to his consignees and stop payment of the towage bill before Falk had the time to get in and lift the money.
From Falk A Reminiscence by Joseph Conrad
But amongst men of his own stature, or nearly, this frank use of his advantages, in such matters as the awful towage bills for instance, caused much impotent gnashing of teeth.
From Falk A Reminiscence by Joseph Conrad
It's up to the master of the tug very frequently whether, under such conditions, his task has been a mere towage job at the going rates or a salvage proposition to be settled in court.
From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne