Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having hair resembling tow.

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of towheaded.

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Examples

  • Here was I, preparing to astonish the world with my tale of a visit to heaven, and I get beaten to the bestseller list by a tow-headed kid.

    Clay Farris Naff: How In The World Did Colton Burpo Beat Me To Heaven? Clay Farris Naff 2011

  • And while the Dutch superintendent, in execrable Spanish, shouted affirmations of Dutch neutrality into the menacing dark, across the gunwale of Chill II they found the body of the tow-headed youth whose business it had been not to die.

    WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE 2010

  • A few minutes later, one of his patrons, a tow-headed young man who was boarding and rehearsing three performing leopards at Cedarwild, was asking Collins for the loan of an Airedale.

    CHAPTER XXIX 2010

  • Here was I, preparing to astonish the world with my tale of a visit to heaven, and I get beaten to the bestseller list by a tow-headed kid.

    Clay Farris Naff: How In The World Did Colton Burpo Beat Me To Heaven? Clay Farris Naff 2011

  • The lights from the gangway showed but one occupant, a tow-headed, greasy-faced, blond youth of twenty, very lean, very calm, very much satisfied with himself.

    WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE 2010

  • Here was I, preparing to astonish the world with my tale of a visit to heaven, and I get beaten to the bestseller list by a tow-headed kid.

    Clay Farris Naff: How In The World Did Colton Burpo Beat Me To Heaven? Clay Farris Naff 2011

  • The tow-headed leopard man, who was billed on the boards as Raoul Castlemon and was called Ralph by his intimates, was already in the cage.

    CHAPTER XXIX 2010

  • Here was I, preparing to astonish the world with my tale of a visit to heaven, and I get beaten to the bestseller list by a tow-headed kid.

    Clay Farris Naff: How In The World Did Colton Burpo Beat Me To Heaven? Clay Farris Naff 2011

  • He liked the cypresses that stretched to the window of his cell, and all along the gravel path that wended over the flat lawn down to where the reeds grew tow-headed at the banks of the streams and the water seemed still and clear on summer days and as rich and foamy as ale in the fall.

    One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009

  •  In one, two tow-headed boys were playing on the beach, chasing each other and a Frisbee, as well as chasing a woman who had to be their mother, until all family members fell laughing into the sand.

    The Time Broker 2010

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