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towhead: tags: [geology]

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Definition:

1. A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow.
2. An alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar, or a small island formed from silt, often permanent enough to have vegetation.

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A few minutes later, one of his patrons, a tow-headed young man who was boarding and rehearsing three performing leopards [...].

Jack London. Michael, Brother of Jerry

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He tow-headed and he don't say nothing. Just waddle around like a duck, following them girls to the high monkey grass on the edge a the yard, to the swingset that hitch up on one side if you swing too high and scare me to death, and back into the baby pool.

Kathryn Stockett. The Help, p.217 (2009)

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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,

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn