Headland

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  • noun. A point of land, usually high and with a sheer drop, extending out into a body of water; a promontory.
  • noun. The unplowed land at the end of a plowed furrow.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A ridge or strip of unplowed land at the ends of furrows or near a fence.
  • noun. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting from the shore into the sea or other expanse of water.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
  • noun. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A bit of coastal land that juts into the sea; cape
  • noun. The unplowed boundary of a field
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
    • Word Usage
    "Places as threatened by this prose as a headland is by the bulldozer or a sea almond grove by the surveyor's string, or from blight, the mountain laurel."
    cross-reference
    abuttal  portolan  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    elevation  natural elevation  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Abila  Abyla  Calpe  Cape Canaveral  Cape Hatteras  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Highlands  Shoreline  bluff  cape  cliff  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    beak  bill  bluff  breakwater  cape  
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