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Meanings of towpath in English

Portuguese
caminho de sirga
Catalan
camí de sirga

A path along a canal or river used by animals towing boats.

caminho de sirga
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Examples for "towing path"
Examples for "towing path"
1
Under the bridge is a towing path on each side of the river.
The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer / With an Introductor...
2
A man, knee-deep near the towing path, shouted inaudibly to me and pointed.
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
3
You hear people quarrelling in boats, in the hotels, as they walk along the towing path.
The Secret Places of the Heart
4
They drove into a large field behind the inn, separated from the river by the towing path, and dismounted.
Original Short Stories — Volume 12
5
And I was going to look for you there when I saw you in the distance on the towing path.
The Heavenly Twins
Usage of towpath in English
1
Those who wished such exercise had to take it on the towpath.
A Brief History of the United States
2
Before breakfast, in warm late-summer sunshine, I strolled along the canal towpath.
The Guardian
3
On the towpath, a man takes snap after snap on his phone.
The Guardian
4
There was a ledge further down the tunnel like a canal towpath.
The Slab
5
They were forced to lead her on a long detour along the towpath.
Dogsbody
6
Remember the gate of Villette, and the corner by the towpath.
El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
7
You were one of the two men who were walking along the towpath.
The Cinema Murder
8
And he thought of the footsteps again, crisp on the towpath.
The coldest blood
9
She'll adopt any dog-loving passerby on the towpath of the Barrow.
The Irish Times
10
You can hear them singing and shouting on the old towpath.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
11
Not that my ancestors went tooled-up down the towpath, so far as I know.
The Guardian
12
After a few minutes' walk upstream on the towpath, he reached the Lech Bridge.
The hangman's daughter
13
The canal and towpath had been landmarks of D.C. for nearly two hundred years.
Private Sector
14
Reaching the riverbank, Dryden turned north along the town-side towpath.
The coldest blood
15
It was refereed by a mounted official who galloped up and down the towpath.
The new yorker
16
He turned and followed the towpath in the other direction.
Dogsbody
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