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  • 21Headland Hotel — The Headland Hotel is located in Newquay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It overlooks Fistral Beach. The hotel is the setting of the film The Witches , the 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl s novel. In 1897 the [http://www.headlandhotel.co.uk… …

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  • 22Headland Estate — The Echo s Hill or Headland Estate is a residential area of Hartlepool, County Durham, which is situated in the North East of England.It made the headlines for the worst reasons imaginable in July 1994, when local toddler Rosie Palmer was… …

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  • 23Headland (agriculture) — In agriculture, a headland is the area at each end of a planted field. It is used for turning around with farm implements during field operations and is the first area to be harvested to minimize crop damage. The rows run perpendicular to the lay …

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  • 24headland — noun Date: before 12th century 1. unplowed land at the ends of furrows or near a fence 2. a point of usually high land jutting out into a body of water ; promontory …

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  • 25headland — /hed leuhnd/, n. 1. a promontory extending into a large body of water. 2. a strip of unplowed land at the ends of furrows or near a fence or border. [bef. 1000; ME hedeland, OE heafodland. See HEAD, LAND] * * * …

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  • 26headland — noun a) A bit of coastal land that juts into the sea; cape b) The unplowed boundary of a field Syn: peninsula …

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  • 27headland —   at the coast, land utting out further into the sea and separating bays. see also discordant coast …

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  • 28headland — Synonyms and related words: beak, bill, breakwater, cape, chersonese, coral reef, delta, foreland, head, hook, mull, naze, ness, peninsula, point, promontory, reef, sandspit, spit, spur, tongue …

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  • 29headland — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. promontory, spit, cape, spur. See convexity, height. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. bluff, cliff, cape; see hill , cape …

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  • 30headland — head|land [ˈhedlənd] n an area of land that sticks out from the coast into the sea …

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