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Headland   Listen
noun
Headland  n.  
1.
A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat."
2.
A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.





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"Headland" Quotes from Famous Books



... thunder-cloud, sleeping in the midst. The sun was hastening to his setting, and threw his strong red light on the wall of rock which, loftier and more imposing than the walls of even the mighty Babylon, stretched onward along the beach, headland after headland, till the last sank abruptly in the far distance, and only the wide ocean stretched beyond. I passed along the insulated piles of cliff that rise thick along the basis of the precipices—now in sunshine, now in shadow—till I reached the opening of one of the largest caves. The ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 - Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative • Alexander Leighton
... waters sank with sip And hollow gurgle round the ship, The long mast rocked against the dim, Soft heaven above the headland's rim ...
— Elves and Heroes • Donald A. MacKenzie
... keep hoping that every headland we pass may bring us in sight of the camp! It cannot be ...
— Mother Carey's Chicken - Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle • George Manville Fenn
... the most horrible headland I ever doubled. I've sailed round it twice already, and both times the ship was a'most blow'd out ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne
... "Tn" the tenacious clay puddled with chaff which serves as mortar for walls built of Adobe or sun dried brick. I made a mistake in my Pilgrimage (i.10) translating Ras al-Tn the old Pharos of Alexandria, by "Headland of Figs." It is Headland of Clay, so called from the argile there found and ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton


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