Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like the head of an arrow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shaped like the head of an arrow; cuneiform.
- adjective characters the elements of which consist of strokes resembling arrowheads, nailheads, or wedges; -- hence called also
nail-headed ,wedge-formed ,cuneiform , orcuneatic characters; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. SeeCuneiform .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped like the
head of anarrow ;cuneiform ;cuneatic .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She gave him a woodpecker's tongue, arrowheaded and barbed; an ox tongue, muscular, broad, and hung with drool; and, finally, the shy, happy tongue that the porpoise employs to push the waves to shore.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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The quills were very loosely set in, and every arrowheaded barb was as sharp as a needle.
Wood Folk at School William Joseph Long 1909
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I sat and sipped my wine, thinking of the fate of cities, -- of Nineveh the renowned, of the marbles lately recovered from thence with the mysterious arrowheaded characters.
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856
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So the news today from our sources with knowledge of the arrowheaded brand's product direction wasn't entirely unexpected.
Jalopnik 2009
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So the news today from our sources with knowledge of the arrowheaded brand's product direction wasn't entirely unexpected.
Jalopnik 2009
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So the news today from our sources with knowledge of the arrowheaded brand's product direction wasn't entirely unexpected.
Jalopnik 2009
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So the news today from our sources with knowledge of the arrowheaded brand's product direction wasn't entirely unexpected.
Jalopnik 2009
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So the news today from our sources with knowledge of the arrowheaded brand's product direction wasn't entirely unexpected.
Jalopnik 2009
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So the news today from our sources with knowledge of the arrowheaded brand's product direction wasn't entirely unexpected.
Jalopnik 2009
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So the news today from our sources with knowledge of the arrowheaded brand's product direction wasn't entirely unexpected.
Jalopnik 2009
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