subs. (Shrewsbury School).—1. A long run in: at hare and hounds.
1881. PASCOE, ed. Everyday Life in Our Public Schools, 163. After that last ‘all up’ there is a ‘TOW,’ or continuous run of from one to three miles.
2. (common).—Generic for money: see RHINO.
TO TOW OUT, verb. phr. (old).—To decoy: spec. to distract attention and thus pave the way for robbery by a confederate: also TOW-STREET (GROSE) and TOW-LINE (VAUX).
IN TOW, phr. (colloquial).—In hand, at one’s apron strings, under one’s influence, or at command: of persons and things; spec. of a woman who is said to have such and such an admirer IN TOW.
