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Definition of Towhead
1. Noun. A person with light blond hair.
Definition of Towhead
1. n. An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.
2. n. A low alluvial island or shoal in a river.
Definition of Towhead
1. Noun. A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow. ¹
2. Noun. An alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar, or a small island formed from silt, often permanent enough to have vegetation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Towhead
1. a head of light blond hair [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Towhead
Literary usage of Towhead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Western Pilot: Containing Charts of the Ohio River and of the by Samuel Cumings (1848)
"33, or Flour Island Ttie channel is now to the right of this island, and to the
left of the towhead, laying opposite the island, keep the middle between the ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Weather Bureau (1895)
"Henderson towhead, head 7 miles and foot 0 miles below Evansville aud 1 mile ...
Saline Bar and Saline towhead, opposite and above mouth of Saline River, ..."
3. The Practice of the Improvement of the Non-tidal Rivers of the United States by Ernest Howard Ruffner (1886)
"... towhead and the Arkansas shore, a dike was begun, in 1883, at each end, and
finished that year, to a length of 1200 feet from the towhead, ..."
4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1903)
"The facts in the case at bar do not make it necessary for us to decide to whom
the accretion would have belonged if it had grown from a towhead that had ..."
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