Definition of "headland" []

• 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. (noun)

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• "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."
• "Wednesday (8) we weyed, and plyed neerer the headland, which is called Caninoz,192 the wind being at East and by North."
• "Around the headland was a short rocky beach backed by black slate cliffs."