arrowhead

Examples

• All

• The way anthropologists or archaeologists describe the different cultures in the Americas is by the type of arrowheads that they made.

• In droughts, I walked them, looking for flint arrowheads and quartz crystals, which I once found in handfuls.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The arrowhead is still there.

  Black Robe (1991)

• I see an arrowhead at the end of a necklace.

  Beyond The Sky (2018)

• I was trying to make arrowheads for my rock collection.

  Boyhood (2014)

• As a boy, he read as much as he could about Indians and collected arrowheads around his home.

  Academic text (1992)

• We accumulated a collection of arrowheads, as my father did as a boy.

  Academic text (1991)

• As he unearthed ancient arrowheads and 2,400-year-old coins that may have been the pocket money of Alexander.

  Academic text (2009)

• The pottery and arrowheads might have been treasured possessions belonging to the deceased.

  Academic text (2006)

• The archaeologist carefully examined the ancient arrowhead found in the excavation site.

Synonyms

S

spearhead

vsarrowhead

1 4.6

A pointed metal or stone tip at the end of a spear

is the pointed tip of a shaft weapon meant to be shot

S

spear-point

vsarrowhead

1 5.1

A sharp metal or stone tip on a spear for piercing

is the pointed tip of a shaft weapon meant to be shot

S

spearpoint

vsarrowhead

1 6.6

A pointed metal or stone tip of a spear

is the pointed tip of a shaft weapon meant to be shot

Compounds

C

common arrowhead

• US

6.7

A water plant with arrow-shaped leaves and edible roots that grows in shallow wetlands

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology