riverhead
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of riverhead
Example Sentences
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They play small, careful, gentle and arranged music, and then they play big, noisy, gestural and improvised music, flicking between one and the other as if those two dispositions were connected back at the riverhead.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2012
She ducked out of sight but kept talking, telling me about a hunting trail that skirted the edge of the city and stopped at a riverhead.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
There at the riverhead they made a dam of timber and turf, and dammed in the lake.
From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
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