Towhead

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a person with light blond hair wordnet
  3. 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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