towing path
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 Henry Rider Haggard
Some distance along it a gate gives on to the towing path leading to Kingston Bridge.
From Hampton Court by E. W. Haslehust
It was he who had managed the starting-rope in every race, and his voice from the towing path had come to be looked upon as a safe guide for clapping on or rowing steady.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
The Ray flickered up and down the towing path, licking off the people who ran this way and that, and came down to the water's edge not fifty yards from where I stood.
From The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
East from this point runs the Long Walk, parallel with, but well above, the towing path, and affording a good view along the river on one hand and glimpses of the park on the other.
From Hampton Court by E. W. Haslehust
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