ARROWHEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arrowhead mean? 

• ARROWHEAD (noun)
  The noun ARROWHEAD has 1 sense:

1. the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow

  Familiarity information: ARROWHEAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARROWHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The pointed head or striking tip of an arrow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("arrowhead" is a kind of...):

point (sharp end)

Meronyms (parts of "arrowhead"):

barb (a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove)

peak; point; tip (a V shape)

Holonyms ("arrowhead" is a part of...):

arrow (a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow)

 Context examples 

I may have commented upon my friend’s power of mental detachment, but never have I wondered at it more than upon that spring morning in Cornwall when for two hours he discoursed upon celts, arrowheads, and shards, as lightly as if no sinister mystery were waiting for his solution.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)