headwards

To the east, the Great Escarpment marks the limit of headwards erosion of these tablelands from the coastal plain.

Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia 2008

Nearby landslides may extend headwards or sideways, or may supply debris on to the site.

Chapter 10 1999

Nearby landslides may extend headwards or sideways, or may supply debris on to the site.

1.1 Problems of slopes and their solutions 1999

Sometimes he goes feetwards and sometimes he goes headwards and sometimes he turns a somersault in the air before he touches the water.

Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1922

Now he puts out his hands, like this, and he calls out, "This time I'm going to take a headwards dive!"

Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1922

Along the banks of the trunk streams short gullies are slowly lengthening headwards, like growing twigs which are sometime to become large branches.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900