Headland
['hedlənd;-lænd] or ['hɛdlənd]
Definition
(n.) A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
(n.) A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Promontory, cape, foreland.
Edited by Clare
Examples
- The smell of the sea as you walk through the gorse on a headland in Galicia? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What looked like a point ahead was a long high headland. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Strange shipping became more frequent, passing the Japanese headlands; sometimes ships were wrecked and sailors brought ashore. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The north pole will rush to the south, and the headlands of Europe be locked into the bays of Australia ere I forget. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Scattered over the further sea, beyond the headlands, remote and vague, were ships in flight and Greek ships in pursuit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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