What is "dragonhead"

Usage examples of "dragonhead".

A false helm at that, for the face within was less the visage of his pursuer than the intricate dragonhead crest was.

It came toward them prow-first, its stempost carved into a yawning dragonhead, but no voice hailed them as it approached, only the ever-louder hum which seemed to paralyze them all.

I did not drink with them, however, but hunkered down beneath the dragonhead prow and watched the barbarians stoke their courage with liberal lashings of ale.

There, below the fierce painted dragonhead, I turned my face to the planks, closed my eyes, and tried to impose some small order upon the chaos of my thoughts.

I felt the ship hesitate as the prow bit into the waves, only to spring ahead as the dragonhead came bounding up once more.

Dugal scrambled with the terrible jar to the dragonhead prow, took aim, and hurled it back at the red ship.

As the ship glided out into the channel, I saw Gunnar standing at the dragonhead prow, waving to me.

Lathe said, looking down at the silvery dragonhead ring on his own right hand and the red stones of its eyes.

Murdo, after a dull and tiresome day ashore, fairly itched to see the sail raised and the dragonhead prow slicing deep waves once again.

It was somewhat narrower than the well-guarded pass of the stone dragonhead, and it would be much more difficult to traverse, but it was better than trying to scale one of the mountain peaks.

The golden-maned dragonheads on the backs of his hands glittered metallically in the sun.