headlanded

English

Etymology

From headland +‎ -ed.

Adjective

headlanded (not comparable)

1. Having a headland or headlands.
   • 1884, Bayard Taylor, Melodies of Verse, page 55:

     The many-headlanded, the temple-crowned, / Which the great purple sea so whispered round

   • 2003, James R. Goff, Scott Nichol, Helen L. Rouse, The New Zealand Coast, page 297:

     There are headlanded rocky shores, sandy and mixed sand/gravel beaches, beaches of quartzto/feldspathic and iron sands, huge sand barriers, dune fields, coastal lagoons, tidal inlets, river mouths, fiords, and a continental shelf […]