Crossword clues for horsehead
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scoter \Sco"ter\, n. [Cf. Prov. E. scote to plow up.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Oidemia.
Note: The European scoters are Oidemia nigra, called also black duck, black diver, surf duck; and the velvet, or double, scoter ( O. fusca). The common American species are the velvet, or white-winged, scoter ( O. Deglandi), called also velvet duck, white-wing, bull coot, white-winged coot; the black scoter ( O. Americana), called also black coot, butterbill, coppernose; and the surf scoter, or surf duck ( O. perspicillata), called also baldpate, skunkhead, horsehead, patchhead, pishaug, and spectacled coot. These birds are collectively called also coots. The females and young are called gray coots, and brown coots.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A pump for pumping oil from an oil well. 2 A steel girder supporting the roof of a mine tunnel.
WordNet
n. any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies [syn: moonfish, Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horse-head, dollarfish, Selene setapinnis]
Wikipedia
Horsehead were an Australian hard rock band which formed in late 1991 by Scott Kingman on guitar (ex-Cattletruck), Cameron McKenzie on guitar, Andy McLean on vocals (both ex- 21 Guns), Mick Vallance on bass guitar (Serious Young Insects, Boom Crash Opera) and Craig Waugh on drums ( Uncanny X-Men). They toured nationally and internationally as well as supporting United States group, Metallica, on the Australian leg of their April 1998 tour. The band issued three albums, Horsehead (1993), Onism (1996) and Goodbye Mothership (1999) before disbanding in 2000. According to Australian rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, their style of "stadium rock mixed a Led Zeppelinesque bottom-end kick with gut-thumping Faith No More-styled riffs. Nothing subtle or innovative, but everything delivered with great force and conviction".
Usage examples of "horsehead".
The familiar Horsehead accents from the port are repeating, sounding a trifle puzzled and peremptory.
Slackening the reins again, he charged full tilt out of the ravine toward Horsehead Point.
At the edge of Horsehead Point, Tom and Bud threw themselves from their ponies.
The ship soared off, leaving a band of raging, frustrated Brungarians on Horsehead Point.
Solly how she felt, looking at the star-cradles glowing in their windows, at the Horsehead, at the rings.
The overhead screen depicted the Alnitak region, the vast roiling clouds, the dark mass of the Horsehead, the brilliant nebulosity NGC2024, the giant star itself, and the sweeping rings of the Jovian world.
I pray to Lady Horsehead and King-of-Oxen and the Transcendent Pig and Prince Millet and Hun-po Chao, patron deity of the armpits!
It was a medium ship of five thousand tons, designed for service in the Horsehead Nebula region.
Milky Way also is replete with imagined likenesses - for example, the Horsehead, Eskimo, Owl, Homunculus, Tarantula and North American Nebulae, all irregular clouds of gas and dust, illuminated by bright stars and each on a scale that dwarfs our solar system.
Girls carried straw baskets up the hill to the monastery, and the bonzes lined them with yellow paper upon which they had drawn pictures of Lady Horsehead, and the abbot blessed the baskets and burned incense to the patron of sericulture.
Over their mail shirts they wore white linen tabards with a black horsehead on the right breast.
They wore brass helmets and tabards bearing the Sandrakkan horsehead quartered with the wavy symbol of Erdin.
We found this beautiful, beautiful mounted horsehead with the silver mane and the lovely blue glass eyes that follow us.
The family stayed independent, selling information when our funds ran low, reinvesting in data from freelance expeditions to the Horsehead and Lesser Magellan.
On the run, he circled, and saw the garnet-coloured horse bearing down on him, seeming big as a ship with a strange horsehead prow.