He came into the world as a towhead, and that's where he gained his nickname.
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With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those towhead boys has written a hymn on Sunday.
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The first stop was a tide-flooded shoreline adjacent to a narrow channel and towhead oyster reef.
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Sorensen's outdoor beginnings were as a 4-year-old towhead traipsing after her father, Brad, and grandfather, Marvin, in pursuit of rabbit and squirrel.
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A person with light blond hair
A river island is any landmass or fluvial landform within a river.
A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; An alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar, or a small island formed from silt, often permanent enough to have vegetation
A sand bar in a river, especially a sand bar with a stand of cottonwood trees.
A person with white or light-colored hair; tow is a coarse fiber used in the past to make gunnysacks.