bluff-headed
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Built with the stem nearly vertical, as opposed to one with a rake that extends far beyond the keel.
adj
Having a broad, precipitous front or face.
adj
Having a broad face and gruff manners, especially when not exceptionally clever or assertive.
Example Sentences
- "Some are constructed with a view to carrying a large cargo, and are broad, and what is technically termed "bluff-headed," whilst others are designed for fast sailing."
- "[…] of a bluff-headed boat beating to windward in a choppy sea."
- "The vessel appears strongly constructed of seasoned white oak timber, the bow bluff-headed, while aft the poop-deck has a rise which takes in the mizzenmast and pump."
- "If one refers to af chapman one finds that while only three drawings of comparable ships show boomkins fitted, all drawings of bluff-headed ships show either an extra timberhead or a half-round cutting in the top of the hawse piece to accommodate this spar when needed."
- "Do you not see that low bluff-headed mountain?"
- "Leaving behind us the town at the bottom of its deep bay, we set out to explore a bluff-headed parallelogramical promontory, bounded by Thurso Bay on the one hand, and Murkle Bay on the other, and which presents to the open sea, in the space that stretches between, an undulating line of iron-bound coast, exposed to the roll of the northern ocean."
Inflected Forms
more bluff-headed (comparative)
most bluff-headed (superlative)