1.
[syn: promontory, headland, head, foreland]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Headland \Head"land\ (h[e^]d"l[a^]nd), n.
1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the
sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with
wheat." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or
near a fence. --Tusser.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
headland
n 1: a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out
into the sea) [syn: promontory, headland, head,
foreland]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "headland":
beak, bill, breakwater, cape, chersonese, coral reef, delta,
foreland, head, hook, mull, naze, ness, peninsula, point,
promontory, reef, sandspit, spit, spur, tongue
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Headland, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
Population (2000): 3523
Housing Units (2000): 1516
Land area (2000): 16.032531 sq. miles (41.524063 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009766 sq. miles (0.025294 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 16.042297 sq. miles (41.549357 sq. km)
FIPS code: 33856
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 31.353410 N, 85.339793 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36345
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Headland, AL
Headland