niggerhead

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A bollard made from an old cannon.
2. isim A geode.
3. isim A coneflower.
4. isim A coral or stone outcrop that stands above the surface of the water.

   “Landward is the almost unbroken wall of submerged reefs where the big niggerhead corals send their solid bulks up to within a fathom or two of the surface.”

5. isim A tussock (clump of plant material), found on the tundra.

   “These plants fill the interstices between the grasses and tiny shrubs that make the outer, fuller form of the niggerhead.”

6. isim A strong black variety of chewing tobacco, usually in twisted plug form.
7. isim A stone, piece of gangue, or lump of coal that is of a grade with a certain size.

   “[…] cutting lumber, burning prodigious accumulations of brush, grubbing stumps, hauling niggerheads on a stoneboat to fence rows. Back-breaking toil that meant, literally, eating bread in the sweat of one's brow!”

8. isim A term of abuse for a black person.