tow-line

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The tow-line had now tautened, at right angles to the two boats, and the predicament was laughable.

YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010
They landed on the bank above and plunged immediately ashore and into the brush with the tow-line.

Trust 2010
We were sailing on the wind, and when Yellow Handkerchief flattened down the sheet the junk forged ahead and the tow-line went slack.

YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010
Jesus, it's like four days of driving with a tow-line.

Annnnnd We're Back. Rogers 2006
Jesus, it's like four days of driving with a tow-line.

Archive 2006-04-23 Rogers 2006
When they had been taken to the mouth of the channel leading among the Chonos Islands, Robur shouted to them to cast off the tow-line.

Robur the Conqueror 2003
A coil of new tow-line was then unwound, and some fathoms of it taken to the windlass, and stretched to a great tension.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002
And forge me first, twelve rods for its shank; then wind, and twist, and hammer these twelve together like the yarns and strands of a tow-line.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002
The agonized whale goes into his flurry; the tow-line is slackened, and the pitchpoler dropping astern, folds his hands, and mutely watches the monster die.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002
Even the Conference of Scientists couldn't develop a usable formula, any more than they could work out a tractor that could be used as a tow-line on one. '

Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972