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toware

toware [AN tower; cf. ME touen, towen], to drag (esp. vessel along water by means of a rope, also freight), tow. 1333 pro towag' eorundem iiijxx iij doleorum ‥ ~andorum usque terram (Butlerage) KR Ac 78/11 m. 4; 1370 in towagio iiij doliorum ~atorum apud Plymuth MinAc 818/1; 1390 pro diversis batellis conductis ad ~andum navem domini de portu apud Boston usque Chopchire Ac. H. Derby 37; c1421 ad ~and' et conducend' in diversis magnis batellis omnia apparat' et takelyng' ejusdem [navis] ‥ usque ad le storehouse (KR Ac) Sea Terms II 10; 1425 de j ferro vocato swevill ‥ facto ad ~andum quoddam malum grossum Ac. Foreign 59 G; c1434 ad extrahend', ~and', veland', et navigand' diversos apparatus extra dictam navem (Navy) KR Ac 53/5 f. 4v.

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