broadheadn.
/ˈbrɔːdhɛd/, U.S. /ˈbrɔdˌ(h)ɛd/, /ˈbrɑdˌ(h)ɛd/ 1. An arrowhead which is broad and typically barbed, now esp. one used in hunting; an arrow having such a head. Also as a modifier, chiefly in broadhead arrow. Cf. broad arrowhead n. 3aIn early use sometimes not as a fixed collocation.Modern broadheads are of various types, having between two and six cutting edges that are either fixed or designed to open on impact.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > broad head
broad arrowhead1545
1530 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expences Henry VIII (1827) 47 The same daye paied to Scawseby for bowys Arowys shaft[es] brode hedd[es] braser and shoting glove for my lady Anne..xxiij s. iiij d.
1658 J. Streater tr. O. Magnus Compend. Hist. Goths, Swedes, & Vandals vii. i. 94 Amongst the Northern Nations, there is great use made of Bows, Slings, and Arrows... They have Arrows of Wood, with broad heads to kill Marduri, Zibels, and Pyroli.
1876 Appletons' Jrnl. 11 Mar. 329/2 Each in his skiff, with..a full case of light-barbed arrows and a dozen or so of heavy broad-heads.
1959 Rappahannock (Kilmarnock, Va.) Rec. 9 Apr. 4/4 Big game may be shot with legal broadhead arrows only which have a minimum width head of seven-eighth of an inch.
1995 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 10 Sept. c19 These new broadheads, whose blades are folded while in flight, are believed to fly truer than arrows with similar-sized, fixed broadheads.
2021 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 27 Jan. 7 The coyote bolted into the open and I released, sending a razor-sharp broadhead through its vitals.
2. Physical Anthropology. Usually broad head. A person having a brachycephalic (relatively broad) skull, typically as contrasted with one having a dolichocephalic (relatively long) skull. Cf. brachycephal n., short head n. (a) at short adj., n., and adv. Compounds 6a. Now historical.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > skull measurement > [noun] > types of skull > person having
macrocephalus1626
long head1650
microcephalus1848
brachycephales1863
dolichocephali1863
brachistocephali1866
mecistocephali1866
Mesocephali1866
roundhead1867
microcephale1873
microcephalic1873
dolichocephal1876
mesorrhinian1878
mesocephal1883
short head1883
mesorrhine1885
platyrrhine1886
brachycephal1901
1859 Arkansas True Democrat 22 June Retzius' new system of craniology with its two divisions of oval heads..and broad or cubic heads... In Asia, the Chinese, Hindoos, Arian Persians, Arabs, Jews and Tungusians are oval heads..; all the rest broad heads.
1899 J. F. Muro Story of Brit. Race ii. 32 These broad-heads, commixed with some of the long-heads from north and south who preceded them, were..the true ‘Celts’.
1934 R. C. Priebsch & W. E. Collinson German Lang. i. ii. 37 Of less moment..are..the fair broad-heads of East Baltic type on the eastern periphery.
1989 C. E. Russett Sexual Sci. (1991) i. 33 The cephalic index..divided human beings into three..groups: the dolichocephali (long-heads), the brachycephali (broad-heads) and the mesaticephali..(middle-heads).
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