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in tow

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in tow
if you have someone in tow, you have them with you. She arrived with six small children in tow.
See also: tow


in tow
following or going along under someone's control. She usually goes shopping with her three children in tow.
Etymology: based on the literal meaning of a vehicle or ship in tow (= being pulled with a rope or chain)
See also: tow


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It escaped his attention, for he was glancing over the stern at something the boat had in tow.
In this predicament, Captain Sublette found them, in a manner becalmed, or rather run aground, at the little frontier town of Independence, in Missouri, and kindly took them in tow.
I have seen the boy before,” said Benjamin, who wanted little encouragement to speak; “he has been backing and filling in the wake of Natty Bumppo, through the mountains, after deer, like a Dutch long- boat in tow of an Albany sloop.
 
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