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Towee vs Topee - What's the difference?

towee | topee |

As nouns the difference between towee and topee

is that towee is a vehicle, vessel, etc being towed while topee is a pith helmet.

towee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vehicle, vessel, etc. being towed.
  • * 1933 , Henry Sturmey, ?H. Walter Staner, The Autocar
    • But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window

    Related terms

    * tower

    topee

    English

    Noun

    (s)
  • A pith helmet.
  • * 1933 , Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure: A Quest Into the Heart of the Amazon , 2011, page 203,
    • I lent my topee to Camarião, who looked extremely odd in it.
  • * 1968 , Paul Scott, The Day of the Scorpion'' [''The Raj Quartet , Volume 2], 1998, page 444,
    • There were a few people on the platform, among them two Indian police, and a station oflicial with a white topee .
  • * 1979 , Dudley Pope, Convoy , 2001, page 138,
    • 'Not a drop of perspiration on his face,' Ned had commented, 'and in the tropics now no one wears a topee', except certain regiments, and Peter the Planter's type of ' topee blows off in anything over a five-knot breeze.'

    Synonyms

    * (pith helmet) sola topee, solar topee