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tow·head

(tō′hĕd′)

1. A head of white-blond hair resembling tow.

2. A person with such hair.

3. A sandbar or low-lying alluvial island in a river, especially one with a stand of trees.

tow′head′ed adj.

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towhead

(ˈtəʊˌhɛd)

1. a person with blond or yellowish hair

2. a head of such hair

[from tow² (flax)]

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tow•head

(ˈtoʊˌhɛd)

n.

1. a head of very light blond, almost white hair.

2. a person with such hair.

[1820–30]

tow′-head`ed, adj.

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When the first streak of day began to show we tied up to a towhead in a big bend on the Illinois side, and hacked off cottonwood branches with the hatchet, and covered up the raft with them so she looked like there had been a cave-in in the bank there.

Jim said he bet she did think of it by the time the men was ready to start, and he believed they must a gone up-town to get a dog and so they lost all that time, or else we wouldn't be here on a towhead sixteen or seventeen mile below the village -- no, indeedy, we would be in that same old town again.

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