Definition of "war-head" [war-head]

• The explosive head of a locomotive torpedo. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A war-head touched steel plating and there ensued a world-wracking explosion of atomic iron."
• "Finally, he laid his hand flat on the altar; the executioner unbent his bow and the arrow drooped from the painted haft and dangled there, its hammered iron war-head glinting in the firelight."
• "Great Peace breaks like a rotten arrow where the war-head drops and the feathers fall from the unbound nock."