headlanded

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

headland +‎ -ed

Adjective[edit]

headlanded (not comparable)

  1. Having a headland or headlands.
    • 1884, Bayard Taylor, Melodies of Verse, page 55:
      The many-headlanded, the temple-crowned, / Which the great purple sea so whispered round
    • 2003, James R. Goff, Scott Nichol, Helen L. Rouse, The New Zealand Coast, page 297:
      There are headlanded rocky shores, sandy and mixed sand/gravel beaches, beaches of quartzto/feldspathic and iron sands, huge sand barriers, dune fields, coastal lagoons, tidal inlets, river mouths, fiords, and a continental shelf []