towing path

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstowpath

   Broaderpath

Questions about towing path

What does towing path mean?

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

What is another word for towing path?

Close synonyms include towpath. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is towing path a common word?

towing path is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.