The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rawhead \Raw"head`\ (r[add]"h[e^]d`), n. A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones.
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Usage examples of "rawhead".
Pull, pull, he willed the human, and Thomas Garrow pulled until his pitiful body had no strength left, and inch by inch Rawhead was hoisted out of his grave in a shroud of prayers.
His scalp tore under the weight of his body, so Rawhead seized Garrow round the neck, his vast hand easily enclosing it.
The pony kicked and complained, but Rawhead had in his time taken animals far bigger and far better armed than this.
The noise of the engine made Rawhead nervous though, as it over-revved up the hill past the Nicholson Farm.
The only sound Rawhead understood from the mouth of the man was this sound he was hearing now, this high-pitched shriek that always attended a gelding.
In that time Rawhead had smashed the central panel of the Vestry door, and was now demolishing the rest.
For the first time Coot saw Rawhead in a good light, and the terrors began in earnest.
His voice, which he had prayed would give the appropriate orders when the time came without betraying him, came out as a strangled yelp as Rawhead appeared from the interior of the Church.
Out of the dip there were no lights along the road, and Rawhead began to feel safer.
Nightmares merged at the edges, bleeding over into daylight, rawhead and bloodybones come out to play.
Nightmares merged at the edges, bleeding over into daylight, rawhead and bloodybones come out to play.