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riverhead

American  
[riv-er-hed] / ˈrɪv ərˌhɛd /

noun

  1. the source or spring of a river.

Etymology

Origin of riverhead

First recorded in 1675–85; river 1 + head

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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