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Towpath

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Noun
  1. 1
    A path alongside a canal or river, originally for horses towing barges, now more often used as a footpath.

    "From the 1960s, various local authorities became increasingly involved in improving the neglected waterway, and towpaths were progressively reopened as footpaths."

  2. 2
    a path along a canal or river used by animals towing boats wordnet

Etymology

From tow + path.

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