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Developers have been towing their ideas up to Orkney because the islands are home to the EMEC, dedicated to wave and tidal power, with a test site set up to run trials on blue-energy machines.

From Washington Post

I was but a younker in the time of it, seeing that it is four-and-twenty years, come May next, since I have been towing at the stern of master Harry.

From The Red Rover by Cooper, James Fenimore

The beauty of double-lashing the dories began to appear, and all hands might have been towing astern all night by the look of them.

From The Seiners by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)