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headland

/ˈhɛdlənd/ noun C2
  1. Coastal land that juts into the sea.
  2. The unplowed boundary of a field.

Plural headlands

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At this rate the flat would fill and sink long before it could drift to the lower headland.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 223 · C1
They were standing on the bank of the pond, below Orchard Slope, where a little headland fringed with birches ran out from the bank; at its tip was a small wooden platform built out into the water for the convenience of fishermen and duck hunters.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 220 · C1
The girls had discovered that if the flat were pushed off from the landing place it would drift down with the current under the bridge and finally strand itself on another headland lower down which ran out at a curve in the pond.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 221 · C1
Diana and Jane and Ruby only waited long enough to see it caught in the current and headed for the bridge before scampering up through the woods, across the road, and down to the lower headland where, as Lancelot and Guinevere and the King, they were to be in readiness to receive the lily maid.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 222 · C1

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