Crossword clues for headland
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Headland \Head"land\ (h[e^]d"l[a^]nd), n.
A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. ``Sow the headland with wheat.''
--Shak.A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.
--Tusser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A bit of coastal land that juts into the sea; cape. 2 The unplowed boundary of a field.
WordNet
n. a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) [syn: promontory, foreland]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1516
Land area (2000): 16.032531 sq. miles (41.524063 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009766 sq. miles (0.025294 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 16.042297 sq. miles (41.549357 sq. km)
FIPS code: 33856
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 31.353410 N, 85.339793 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36345
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Headland
Wikipedia
A headland is a point of land, usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends out into a body of water.
Headland can also refer to:
- Headlands and bays
- headLand, an Australian television series
- Headland (agriculture), the area at each end of a planted field used for turning farm machinery
- Headland, Alabama, a small city in the United States
- Headland, Hartlepool, a village in County Durham, UK
- Headlands Center for the Arts
- Headlands Beach State Park
A headland (or simply head) is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends out into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape. Headlands are characterized by high, breaking waves, rocky shores, intense erosion, and steep sea cliffs.
Headlands and bays are often found on the same coastline. A bay is surrounded by land on three sides, whereas a headland is surrounded by water on three sides. Headlands and bays form on discordant coastlines, where bands of rock of alternating resistance run perpendicular to the coast. Bays form where weak (less resistant) rocks (such as sands and clays) are eroded, leaving bands of stronger (more resistant) rocks (such as chalk, limestone, granite) forming a headland, or peninsula. Through the deposition of sediment within the bay and the erosion of the headlands, coastlines eventually straighten out then start the same process all over again.
A Headland, in agriculture, is the area at each end of a planted field. In some areas of the United States, this area is known as the Turnrow. It is used for turning around with farm implements during field operations and is the first area to be harvested to minimize crop damage. The rows run perpendicular to the lay of the field and are usually two, three or four times the width of the implement used for planting the field.
Usage examples of "headland".
We had swerved, close in, around the second headland, and were tearing across the mouth of the bay toward Agios Georgios.
Aiming for Beachy Head he would instinctively steer to the north of the recognized course: south of it, he might miss the headland altogether.
Castelnuovo, on the northern tip of the Bocche di Cattaro: Caroline was being repaired and refitted in a perfectly reputable yard just round the headland.
Behind the great headland westwards lay the Camara de Lobos: seals were said to breed there.
And none on a narrow cliff path around a headland cither, if my journey was anything to go by.
We jumped up and rounded the headland, expecting to find the fire snuffed out!
The stench of the rotting, rubbery flesh did not appear to bother the fascinated ichthyologists, but Griff, at last, climbed to the headlands once more to gulp in cleaner air.
Rising vertically a thousand feet from the waves that broke against their base and plunging to untold depths below the surface, the white-chalk precipices terminated in a massive headland that marked the entrance to Kylles Bay.
This is to my mind the nicest spot in Whitby, for it lies right over the town, and has a full view of the harbour and all up the bay to where the headland called Kettleness stretches out into the sea.
Just as his feet hit the deck, Lobb called and pointed towards the western headland forming the bay.
Headland, into which I had seen Meve MacDonnal disappear the evening before.
To the story of Nauplius, king of Euboea, who hung false lights over the headland of Caphareus, and so caused the wreck of the Greek fleet.
In the morning he watched with unseeing eyes the headland come out a shapeless inkblot against the thin light of the false dawn, pass through all the stages of daybreak to the deep purple of its outlined mass nimbed gloriously with the gold of the rising sun.
My mother and I had planned to cross our headland and travel around by sledge to Sessing, a neighboring farmstead, where our cousin Ristil worked.
They ran out past the anchored sailboats and rounded Squantum headland, where legend had it Captain Miles Standish first met Squanto, the Indian who taught the pilgrims how to survive their first harsh New England winter by planting corn.