promontory

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff.

   Leaving behind us the town at the bottom of its deep bay, we set out to explore a bluff-headed parallelogramical promontory, bounded by Thurso Bay on the one hand, and Murkle Bay on the other, and which presents to the open sea, in the space that stretches between, an undulating line of iron-bound coast, exposed to the roll of the northern ocean.

2. 2
   noun

   a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)

3. 3
   noun

   A projecting part of the body.

From Medieval Latin prōmontōrium, from prōmineō, from prō- + *mineō (“to project or jut”, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out”)) + -tōrium (“place”).

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