towage

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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

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.

Had not salmon, of I know not how many pounds' weight, been played and brought to land by that slender towage.

From Wylder's Hand by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Sailing-vessels, however, require only a short towage, the docks being scarcely a dozen miles from Chesapeake Bay.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

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