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Towhead Island, Union District, Jackson County, West Virginia, now submerged Towhead Island - see List of islands of Washington Towhead Creek, a tributary of the Wakarusa River , Kansas
William III (913 – 3 April 963), called Towhead (French: Tête d'étoupe, Latin: Caput Stupe) from the colour of his hair, was the "Count of the Duchy of Aquitaine" from 959 and Duke of Aquitaine from 962 to his death. He was also the Count of Poitou (as William I) from 935 and Count of Auvergne from 950.
The term "towhead" implies an islet (small island) or shoal within a river (most often the Mississippi River) having a grouping or thicket of trees, and is often used in the Midwestern United States. Many rivers, if wide enough, can house considerably large islands. The term "towhead" was popularised by Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Large ballast tractor pulling a heavy load (a transformer) on a hydraulic modular trailer using a drawbar A British Airways Concorde being towed in New York City. Towing is coupling two or more objects together so that they may be pulled by a designated power source or sources.
In the artificial fibre and composites industries, a tow is an untwisted bundle of continuous filaments, in particular of acrylic, carbon fibres, or viscose rayon.Tows are designated either by their total tex (mass in grams per 1000 m length) [3] or by the number of fibres they contain.
When a trailer skids to one side, this is known as a trailer swing or trailer slew.This can occur on a slippery road surface, often where there is a cant.This is not the same as jackknifing and is not as serious, as the trailer will move back into line as the vehicle continues forwards.
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The head on the beakhead of the 17th-century warship Vasa.The toilets are the two square box-like structures on either side of the bowsprit.On the starboard side, there are still minor remnants of the original seat.