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tow-rope (ˈtəʊrəʊp) [f. tow v.1 + rope n.1] A rope (hawser, cable, or the like) used in towing.1743 Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 119 We called to them to take hold of a Towe-Rope, but they refused. 1801 Jefferson Writ. (ed. Ford) VIII. 75 You will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a ...
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Tow-in surfing
Tow-in surfing is accomplished by taking a personal watercraft (PWC) and a tow-rope and combining that with a surfer. When the waves comes, the person on the PWC tows the surfer via the tow-rope into the wave. Once the surfer is in the wave, the rope is dropped.
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towing
▪ I. towing, vbl. n.1 (ˈtəʊɪŋ) [f. tow v.1 + -ing1.] a. The action of tow v.1; esp. the dragging of a boat or ship by a tow-line; also, the drawing of a fine net behind a boat or other vessel for the capture of marine zoological specimens, and in pl. the proceeds of this, the specimens captured.1494...
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BOS 400
The tow-rope broke loose during a huge storm and caused the vessel to run aground off Duiker Point near Sandy Bay, at the same place as the earlier wreck
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Skliar Aqua Glider
Using a tow-rope of between 150 and 400 ft (45 and 120 m), the glider could reach a maximum altitude of 70% the length of the rope when the speedboat reached
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NRC tailless glider
Launches were carried out as aero-tows behind an RCAF Douglas Dakota with a 350 ft nylon tow-rope, at a normal towing speed of 100 mph, but tows at 140
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dredge
▪ I. dredge, n.1 (drɛdʒ) Forms: 5–6 dreg, 7 dridge, 8 drudge, 7– dredge. [Of this, and the associated verb, the Sc. form dreg is found c 1500, and in comb. in dreg-boat 1471; the Eng. form dredge appears (in the vb.) in 1576. (Cf. Sc. seg = sedge, etc.). The n. corresponds to mod.Du. dreg, in 16th c...
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Hall Ski-Lift
Using salvaged tractor parts, they constructed Hall's first tow-rope ski lift.
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slack
slack/slæk; slæk/ adj(-er, -est)1 not tight or tense; loose 不紧的; 松弛的: a slack rope 松弛的绳子 The boxer's jaw went slack. 那拳击手的下巴松了下来. Your grip on the bar is too slack. 这根棒你握得太松了.2(a) ~ (at/about sth) (of a person) giving little care and energy to a task (指人)懈怠的, 疏忽的 He's been getting slack and making s...
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Operation Turkey Buzzard
Four hours into one flight, a Horsa snapped its tow-rope while trying to avoid low cloud and ditched in the sea.
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Borazon
The cable is developed by asteroid miners for a tow-rope for hauling asteroids.
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ski
▪ I. ski, n. (skiː) Pl. skis (now rare) ski. Also she, skee. [a. Norw. ski (skji, sjii, also written skid) neut.:—ON. skið snow-shoe, billet of cleft wood, = OE. sc{iacu}d shide n. In some Norw. dialects also skida (skjia, skjie) fem., = Sw. skida (pl. skidor):—ON. sk{iacu}ða. In mod.Norw. and Sw. s...
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Flugwissenschaftliche Vereinigung Aachen
To remove the need for rope dropping the FVA students designed and built a retractable tow-rope system that could be retrofitted to glider-tugs. A small winch fitted inside the tug carries the tow-rope when retracted.
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slip
▪ I. slip, n.1 (slɪp) Forms: 1 slipa, 1, 5 slype, 1, 5–6 slyppe, 5 slyp(p, slep, 7– slip. [OE. (see sense 1), of doubtful form and obscure origin. Cf. Norw. slip, slipa slime, as on fish; G. dial. schlipper curdled milk.] † 1. A soft semi-liquid mass. Obs. Cf. the second element in cowslip and oxlip...
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