DCHP-1 Online
tow Lumbering 
n. a collection of boomed logs rigged for towing.
See also: log tow tow timber
- 1851 (1957) I wish he mey [sic] come with the first Tow in cribs.
- 1891 The logs . . . were now handed over to the care of a company which gathered them up into "tows" and with powerful steamers dragged them down the river until the sorting grounds were reached. . . .
- 1912 As I stand watching the bridge, one section of it opens to let a tug through with a tow of logs.
- 1965 . . . logs totalling about 1,000,000 board feet . . . were lost from a tow early today.
- 1851 (1957) I wish he mey [sic] come with the first Tow in cribs.