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Flat-head. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Flat-head 1.  One who has a flat head; spec. a member of a tribe of North American Indians named from their supposed practice of flattening their children’s heads artificially.

1   The tribe now commonly known by this appellation is the Selish or Hopilpo; but ‘they do not flatten the heads of their children, and appear never to have done so; the name Flathead being at first applied to them by mistake’ (Encycl. Amer., 1886).

2 1837.  Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), IV. 225. There are flat-heads there [Sierra Leone] as in other countries; but at the bottom of the whole, is the longing to use the flat-heads for improper purposes.

3 1837.  W. Irving, Capt. Bonneville, I. 121. The Flathead levelled his piece, and brought the Blackfoot to the ground.

4 1841.  Catlin, N. Amer. Ind. (ed. 2), II. 110. The Chinooks … correctly come under the name of Flat-Heads, as they are almost the only people who strictly adhere to the custom of squeezing and flattening the head.

5 1862.  D. Wilson, Preh. Man (1876), II. xxi. 221. The strange practice of American Flatheads far to the north-east of the Altai chain.

6   2.  Australia. The local name for a fish of the genus Ceratodus.

7 1832.  Bischoff, Van Diemen’s Land, ii. 32. The market of Hobart Town is principally supplied from the Derwent, with small rock cod, flat-heads, and a fish called the perch, and various others.

8 1852.  Mundy, Our Antipodes, viii. 195. Those who engage in the sport [of fishing] often return with a good basket of schnappers and flatheads—perhaps a rock-cod or two; and with every bit of skin burnt off their noses and chins.

9   3.  U.S. ‘A snake which flattens its head, as a species of Heterodon’ (Cent. Dict.).

10 1888.  Fanny D. Bergen, Animal and Plant Lore, in Pop. Sci. Monthly, XXXIII. Sept., 660. The blow-snake of Illinois is variously known in other localities as hog-nose, flat-head, viper, and puff-adder.

11   4.  Arch. An ornament of an archivolt with a flat uncarved surface.

12 1883.  Mollett, Dict. Art & Archæol., Flat-heads, an ornament peculiar to the Romano-Byzantine period, which decorates archivolts.

13   B.  attrib. Having a flat head or top.

14 1874.  Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 878/1. Flat-head Nail. A forged nail with a round, flat head and a light, rounded, pointed body.

15 1891.  John R. Spears, Odd American Homes, in Scribner’s Mag., X. Sept., 311/1. The flat-head houses of Brooklyn—two stories high in front and three in the rear.

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