towhead

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The towhead was a rattling big distance off, away out there in the middle of the river, but I didn't lose no time; and when I struck the raft at last I was so fagged I would a just laid down to blow and gasp if I could afforded it.

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  1. noun A head of white-blond hair resembling tow.
  2. noun A person with such hair.
  3. noun A sandbar or low-lying alluvial island in a river, especially one with a stand of trees.

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  • There was a harsh laugh from the towhead, whose silver torc was nearly concealed by a plaid flannel shirt. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • The towhead had only managed to reach the second step when her mother caught up to her and called out a warning. —  Madison.com - top
  • Each towhead, one by one, simply must have their own turn peering into paint can's depths, to milky disk floating. —  Holy Experience
  • He's a towhead, like all the rest of 'em--like their mother For months afterward Lydia could close her eyes and see again the transfigured expression that had come over his face at the mention of his wife. —  The Squirrel-Cage
  • Then the Votaress curved into the west till the great twin shadows of her chimneys crept athwart the pilot-house and texas, while more than one passenger of the kind who tell all they know to whoever will hear said that yonder bright mass of cottonwoods and willows, bathing in sunlight directly up the stream, with open water shimmering all round it, was Glasscock Island; that Glasscock Towhead lay hidden behind it just above, and that a towhead was an island in the making. —  Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
 

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