Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or resembling tow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Composed of, or like, tow.
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- adjective Composed of, or resembling,
tow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The sixty kings of this dynasty ruled a disintegrating kingdom from Memphis and Itj-towy.
d. The Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period (11th-17th Dynasties) 2001
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Amenemhet built a new royal capital, Itj-towy (site unidentified), near the border of Upper and Lower Egypt.
d. The Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period (11th-17th Dynasties) 2001
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Halvor Reitan, the chief of the East-Siders, was a big, burly peasant lad, with a pimpled face, fierce blue eyes, and a shock of towy hair.
Boyhood in Norway 1892
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A little bamboo reed is taken and a hole made in it through which is passed a towy substance found upon palm-trees and known by the name of
My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882
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He had a square face, strong features, and a huge crop of towy hair.
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He had a square face, strong features, and a huge crop of towy hair.
Tales from Two Hemispheres Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871
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Halvor Reitan, the chief of the East-Siders, was a big, burly peasant lad, with a pimpled face, fierce blue eyes, and a shock of towy hair.
Boyhood in Norway Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871
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