headwall

1. A steep slope or precipice rising at the head of a valley or glacial cirque.

Example Sentences

Worse, where the trail passes beneath the bowl, the steep headwall can shed ice and boulders when it is warmed by the afternoon sun.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

An example of a building element that can be made off site more efficiently is the “headwall,” an architectural feature in hospitals that sits behind a patient’s bed and houses equipment to deliver oxygen, run fluid-collection systems, provide lighting and connect to the nurse call system.

Read more on New York Times

Froshaug, who founded Saxe Structure Co. in 1994, was caught as the company prepared to pour a concrete headwall.

Read more on Washington Times

Such work is too dangerous in summertime, when the constant crackling of melting ice is punctuated by groans as slabs of permafrost, some as big as cars, shear off the headwall.

Read more on Science Magazine

In 2014, Kseniia Ashastina slogged through 3 kilometers of mosquito-infested forest to reach the headwall’s edge.

Read more on Science Magazine