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Promontory
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headland
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Word definitions for headland in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A bit of coastal land that juts into the sea; cape. 2 The unplowed boundary of a field.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in 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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Grand Isle is a precarious headland , little more than a sandy breakwater, a mile across and less in some places. ▪ Now a state historic park, Fort Ross is a complex of reconstructed buildings situated on the headlands overlooking ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English heafod lond "strip of land left unplowed at the edge of a field to leave room for the plow to turn," naturally identified with boundaries; see head (n.) + land (n.). Meaning "high cape, promontory" is from 1520s.
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.