noun
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a charge made for towing
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the act of towing or the state of being towed
Etymology
Origin of towage
Example Sentences
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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
Finding our speed too much diminished, by the towage of two heavily laden vessels, we cast off one of them—the Cuba—during the night and directed the prize-master to make sail, and follow us into port.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
And when we rose not a word had been said about towage!
From Falk A Reminiscence by Joseph Conrad
See if you can't get the charterers to pay the towage over to her loading port.
From Cappy Ricks Retires by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
It saves millions of dollars in towage to London alone every year.
From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren
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