niggerheads

Noun

niggerhead (countable and uncountable, plural niggerheads)

1. (dated, offensive) A bollard made from an old cannon.
2. (archaic, colloquial, offensive) A geode.
3. (offensive) A coneflower.
4. (offensive) A coral or stone outcrop that stands above the surface of the water.
   • We were sailing swiftly along on a calm and glassy sea, past beautiful headlands and bits of scenery clothed with vivid and luxuriant green down to the water's edge; past glistening coral islands, on whose outer edges pale green billows broke on the white sandy beaches, boiling and seething as they...1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 35
5. (US, dated, offensive, Alaska) 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.1912, Appalachia, volume 12, page 51
6. (archaic) A strong black variety of chewing tobacco, usually in twisted plug form.

   Synonyms:

   nigger tobacco

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