tow1
  
  v.
 use a vehicle or boat to pull (another vehicle or boat) along.
n.
 an act of towing.
 
  Phrase
  
    
      - in tow
  - 
(also on tow)
 being towed.
 - accompanying or following someone.
 
 
    
   
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  OE togian ‘draw, drag’, of Gmc origin; rel. to tug.
 
  
    
tow2
  
  n.
  - the coarse and broken part of flax or hemp prepared for spinning.
 - a bundle of untwisted natural or man-made fibres.
 
 
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  OE (recorded in towcræft ‘spinning’), of Gmc origin.