billethead

[bil-it-hed]

bil·let·head

[bil-it-hed]
noun Nautical.
a carved ornamental scroll or volute terminating a stem or cutwater at its upper end in place of a figurehead.
Also called scrollhead.


Origin:
1830–40; billet2 + head
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Billethead is always a great word to know.
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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