nigger-head

The softest of treads and suddenly the bloated shape of Gottfried Clawhammer glided from the gloomlike a conga eel from behind a nigger-head.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

A species of small barrel-cactus about the size of a man's head, with fluted sides, or symmetrical vertical rows of small thorned lumps converging at the top of the "nigger-head," as they are sometimes called, grows in great numbers in crevices on the walls.

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

By muskeg hollow and nigger-head it wandered endlessly;

Ballads of a Cheechako 1916

The nigger-head cactus was thrusting its crimson blooms up out of every crevice in the rocks.

The song of the lark 1915

The approach from the sea was easy, if twelve miles of boulder and bog, of swamp and nigger-head, of root and stump, can be called easy under the best of circumstances; but easy it was as compared with what lay beyond and above it.

The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

After a moment we tore off long bundles of the nigger-head blades, lit the resinous ends at our fire, and with these torches started to make our way along the base of the cliff to the other cave.

Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 1909

Then there followed an interlude of building and well-digging, when we sank down some thirty feet or so, and rammed the shaft sides with nigger-head stones, while occasionally some of our scattered neighbors rode twenty miles to lend us assistance.

Lorimer of the Northwest Harold Bindloss 1905

She heard the wounded man moan again as they stole through the deeper shadows of the corrals toward the nigger-head bottom.

The Alaskan James Oliver Curwood 1903

But instead of this he sped more swiftly ahead, and they came into the nigger-head bottom which lay in a narrow barrier between them and the range.

The Alaskan James Oliver Curwood 1903

He picked her up in his arms and carried her again, as he had carried her through the nigger-head bottom.

The Alaskan James Oliver Curwood 1903