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Towhead
noun
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Noun
- 1 A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; the hair of such a person.
"You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles."
- 2 a person with light blond hair wordnet
- 3 An alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar, or a small island formed from silt, often permanent enough to have vegetation.
"Well, the second night a fog begun to come on, and we made for a towhead to tie to, for it wouldn't do to try to run in a fog; but when I paddled ahead in the canoe, with the line to make fast, there warn't anything but little saplings to tie to."
Etymology
From tow + -head.
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