headlands in English

noun

1

a narrow piece of land that projects from a coastline into the sea.

The Fal estuary is long and wide, and Falmouth grew along its western side in a straggling way, curving round into docks at the southern end where a headland projects to narrow the mouth.

synonyms: cape, promontory, point, head, foreland, peninsula, bluff

2

a strip of land left unplowed at the end of a field.

These represent the headlands separating bundles of strips within the open fields, where animals turned while ploughing.

noun

• cape, promontory, point, head, foreland, peninsula, bluff
• foreland, promontory, head

Use "headlands" in a sentence

1. In Europe it is most often recorded on headlands and islands.

2. The northern limit is defined as the great circle line between those two headlands.

3. Thus, he did not go between the two headlands leading into the harbor.

4. Breakwaters can be placed attached to the shoreline as headlands or submerged near the shoreline as sills

5. The striking entrance from the Pacific Ocean is through two precipitous headlands—North Head and South Head.

6. The west coast is more rugged than the east, with numerous islands, peninsulas, headlands and bays.

7. The Istrian Peninsula has a rugged coastline of pine-clad headlands between innumerable bays and inlets.

8. On this hypothesis the spits both start from their respective headlands and converge towards the centre of the bay.

9. Brown headlands, ribbons of current, purple and turquoise waters clear as a flask all shivered and dazzled.

10. Small Whites scatter through the flowery headlands and in this light seem to have an almost violet glow about them.

11. Both bridges were covered by three anti-tank guns each, and the three batteries 105 mm howitzers at the Kralingse Plas were ordered to prepare barrages on both headlands.

12. Night had fallen, and I went out under this great overturned saltshaker of stars, and I could see the tail lights of cars disappearing around the headlands 12 miles to the south.

13. Acadia National Park protects the natural beauty of the highest rocky headlands along the Atlantic coastline of the United States, an abundance of habitats, and a rich cultural heritage

14. It is bounded on three sides by state parks: the historic 1909 Point Cabrillo Light Station is nearby to the south, Jug Handle State Natural Reserve lies to the north, and its coast forms Caspar Headlands State Beach.