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arrowhead
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arrowhead \Ar"row*head`\ arrow-head \ar"row-head`\, n.
the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow.
(Bot.) An aquatic plant of the genus Sagittaria, esp. Sagittaria sagittifolia, -- named from the shape of the leaves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (lb en weapon) The pointed part of an arrow. 2 (lb en symbol) The pointed part of an arrow. 3 Any plant in the genus ''Sagittaria''.
WordNet
n. the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow
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Wikipedia
Chert arrowhead, Late Neolithic (Rhodézien) (3300-2400 BCE), France
]] An arrowhead is a tip, usually sharpened, added to an arrow to make it more deadly or to fulfill some special purpose. The earliest arrowheads were made of stone and of organic materials; as human civilization progressed other materials were used. Arrowheads are important archaeological artifacts; they are a subclass of projectile points. Modern enthusiasts still "produce over one million brand-new spear and arrow points per year".
Arrowhead is the name that science fiction writer James Blish and his wife, literary agent and science fiction writer Virginia Kidd, gave to their home in Milford, Pennsylvania. The Virginia Kidd Literary Agency has been operating continuously at Arrowhead since 1965.
Arrowhead has been a focal point for science fiction writers for over fifty years. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) was partially conceived at Arrowhead, and hundreds of gatherings of science fiction writers who were later prominent SFWA members were hosted there.
Arrowhead, also known as the Herman Melville House, is a historic house museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It was the home of American author Herman Melville during his most productive years, 1850–1863. Here, Melville wrote some of his major work: the novels Moby-Dick, Pierre (dedicated to nearby Mount Greylock), The Confidence-Man, and Israel Potter; The Piazza Tales (a short story collection named for Arrowhead's porch); and magazine stories such as "I and My Chimney".
The house, located at 780 Holmes Road in Pittsfield, was built in the 1780s as a farmhouse and inn. It was adjacent to a property owned by Melville's uncle Thomas, where Melville had developed an attachment to the area through repeated visits. He purchased the property in 1850 with borrowed money and spent the next twelve years farming and writing there. Financial considerations prompted his family's return to New York City in 1863, and Melville sold the property to his brother.
The house remained in private hands until 1975, when the Berkshire County Historical Society acquired the house and a portion of the original property. The Society restored most of the house to Melville's period and operates it as a house museum; it is open to the public during warmer months. It has been designated a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
An arrowhead is the point of an arrow. In archaeology, arrowheads and similar artifacts are known as projectile points.
Arrowhead may also refer to:
Arrowhead is a 1953 western Technicolor film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Charlton Heston and Jack Palance. The film is based on the novel Adobe Walls by W.R.Burnett. The screenplay was also by Charles Marquis Warren.
The Arrowhead was a daily passenger train operated by Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) between Minneapolis, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin in the United States. After two years of operation, service was extended from Superior to Duluth, Minnesota.
Arrowhead was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1923 season. That season he joined the NFL's Oorang Indians. The Indians were a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe. Arrowhead was a member of the Chippewas.
He played in only 4 games in 1923 with the Indians, however he scored 2 touchdowns during that time. On November 11, 1923 Arrowhead caught a pass from Thorpe for the Indians only score in 14-7 loss to the St. Louis Gunners. On December 2, 1923 he caught a 15 yard pass from Emmett McLemore for a score in a 22-19 loss to the Chicago Cardinals.
Arrowhead, also known as Arrowhead at Red Hill, is a historic home and farm complex located near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia. It consists of a two-story, three-bay, gable-roofed frame center section dated to the 1850s; a two-story, multi-bay north extension added in the early 1900s; and a two-bay, two-story library wing added about 1907-1908. The interior features Greek Revival style details. Also on the property are a one-story frame kitchen building, a brick smokehouse, a large icehouse (now a garage), and a 1 1/2-story board-and-batten cottage.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
Usage examples of "arrowhead".
Jasper assented, and Arrowhead and his wife, with whom resistance appeared to be out of the question, silently complied with the directions.
The Mori surviviors had come out of the forest to trade furs for arrowheads with the Danians, just as they had before the disaster.
The second arrow slid into the face of another orc, burying itself to the fletching in an eye socket as the arrowhead crashed through the back of its skull.
The tracks of these networks were just the highest ridges the shapers had built, and the pulses were tiny arrowheads, one and two steps higher.
A half-dozen deadly arrowheads later, Nylan set aside the hammer, let Sias bank the forge coals, and walked to the shaded stoop of the dwelling, from where Ayrlyn had waved-presumably to indicate she had something resembling a midday meal.
When the Coyote-god heard of this, he poisoned the arrowheads so any Washo who picked one up died.
But Karsus had coppersmiths and armorers fashion an arrowhead of copper sheets that measured three feet across.
Still in a small group, hesitantly, a step at a time, they moved forward down the length of the cavern, picking their way through the gallery of tall stalagmitic statues and stumbling over the daggerlike points of limestone that had broken off the ceiling and littered the floor like ancient arrowheads.
Among the graduates of the year were Miss Euthymia Tower and Miss Lurida Vincent, who had now returned to their homes in Arrowhead Village.
Not many suns had set before it was told all through Arrowhead Village that Maurice Kirkwood was the accepted lover of Euthymia Tower.
The arrowheads were barbless mild steel, honed to a needlepoint for penetration, and one of the guerrillas had stood off thirty paces and sunk one of these arrows twenty inches into the fleshy fibrous trunk of a baobab tree.
Both wasps are yellow and black, but the European ones are a lighter canary-yellow and the black bands tend to form little arrowhead shapes.
For the angels of temptation bore blades that slashed through armor and loosed arrowheads that treated iron bucklers as if they were rotten wood, and they raised a mighty stronghold called Westwind, anchored on Tower Black, that rivaled Freyja in power.
He looked up from the arrowhead he was fashioning and turned to the decrepit bowyer sitting next to him.
No bows in the world were as powerful as cataphract bows, few arrowheads as sharp, and none as heavy.