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horseheads

horseheads is the plural of horsehead.

Meaning of horsehead

Noun

horsehead (plural horseheads)

  1. The head of a horse.
  2. A pump for pumping oil from an oil well.
  3. A steel girder supporting the roof of a mine tunnel.

Proper noun capitalized: Horseheads

Horseheads

  1. A town and village therein, in Chemung County, New York, United States.

Origin of horseheads

From a number of horses' skulls that were left there.

Questions about horseheads

What does horseheads mean?
Horseheads means a town and village therein, in Chemung County, New York, United States.
What is horseheads the plural of?
Horseheads is the plural of horsehead.
What part of speech is horseheads?
Horseheads is a proper noun.

Words near horseheads in the dictionary

  1. horsehead
  2. horsehead fiddle
  3. horsehead fiddles
  4. Horsehead Nebula
  5. horseheaded
  6. horseheads
  7. horseheal
  8. horseherb
  9. horseherd
  10. horseherds
  11. horsehide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horseheads (page history and authors); Horseheads (page history and authors); horsehead (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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