Definitions for towhead

towhead tow·head

Spelling: [toh-hed]
IPA: /ˈtoʊˌhɛd/

Towhead is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in towhead (adehotw).

Definitions for towhead

noun

  1. a head of very light blond, almost white hair.
  2. a person with such hair.
  3. a sand bar in a river, especially a sand bar with a stand of cottonwood trees.

Origin of towhead

An Americanism dating back to 1820-30; tow2 + head

Examples for towhead

Turn the page, and there, in fresh ginghams, would be mom, baking pies with one hand while patting her towhead with the other.

It warn't no towhead that you could float by in ten minutes.

As soon as I got started I took out after the raft, hot and heavy, right down the towhead.

We laid up for the day on a towhead tolerable close to the left-hand bank.

"Peterson didn't say nothin' about th' snag or th' towhead," he growled.

Pleased and surprised to have escaped, the towhead withdrew.

To the right of that was a towhead, a newly formed island of mud and sand partly awash.

The snag now lay to port, the towhead to starboard, and holding a straight course the Missouri Belle crept slowly between them.

As we dropped below the towhead, the Boy, for once silent, wistfully gazed astern.

Minnie nodded her towhead toward a weather-beaten house of two rooms across the street.

Word Value for towhead
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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