towing path

British  

noun

1. another name for towpath

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Example Sentences

Fisher made his way beyond the last green wall of the garden on to a sort of towing path looking on the river and a wooden island opposite.

From The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Then we started, the ponies, two arranged tandem fashion to each punt, trotting along a well-made towing path that was furnished with wooden bridges wherever canals or tributary streams entered the main river.

From Ayesha, the Return of She by Haggard, Henry Rider

A man, knee-deep near the towing path, shouted inaudibly to me and pointed.

From The War of the Worlds by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

By this time a general rummage had commenced in the boat for fire-arms; the captain hailed the driver on the towing path, who pulled up, and the boat was moored by the canal side.

From An Englishman's Travels in America His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States by Benwell, John

Some distance along it a gate gives on to the towing path leading to Kingston Bridge.

From Hampton Court by Haslehust, E. W.