Definition of "nigger-head" [nigger-head]

• Alternative spelling of niggerhead. (noun)

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• "The softest of treads and suddenly the bloated shape of Gottfried Clawhammer glided from the gloomlike a conga eel from behind a nigger-head."
• "A species of small barrel-cactus about the size of a man's head, with fluted sides, or symmetrical vertical rows of small thorned lumps converging at the top of the "nigger-head," as they are sometimes called, grows in great numbers in crevices on the walls."
• "By muskeg hollow and nigger-head it wandered endlessly;"