Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A point of land, usually high and with a sheer drop, extending out into a body of water; a promontory.
- noun The unplowed land at the end of a plowed furrow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ridge or strip of unplowed land at the ends of furrows or near a fence.
- noun A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting from the shore into the sea or other expanse of water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
- noun A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bit of
coastal land thatjuts into thesea ;cape - noun The
unplowed boundary of afield
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Places as threatened by this prose as a headland is by the bulldozer or a sea almond grove by the surveyor's string, or from blight, the mountain laurel.
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Wednesday (8) we weyed, and plyed neerer the headland, which is called Caninoz,192 the wind being at East and by North.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Around the headland was a short rocky beach backed by black slate cliffs.
The Mad Ship Hobb, Robin 1999
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The headland was a precipitous cliff of red sandstone, crowned at the summit with a fringe of forest trees, white at its base were two or three hollow caverns, worn into the solid rock by the action of the surf.
Lost in the Fog James De Mille
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On the summit of the headland was a castle accessible on two sides only.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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From the top of the highest headland, which is divided into two nipple-like peaks, an extensive view can be obtained.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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The headland is a bold block of white limestone stained with red.
New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866
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The headland is a bold block of white limestone stained with red.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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The headland is a bold block of white limestone stained with red.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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But when he came back to Portugal, the king told him he ought rather to have called the headland the Cape of Good Hope, for there was now good hope that the way to India was found.
Our Own Third Reader: for the Use of Schools and Families 1862
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