Flathead Definition

flăthĕd
flat-head, flatheads
noun
A member of any of various North American Indian peoples who bound the skulls of their infants so as to produce a flattened forehead.
Webster's New World
A Salish people of NW Montana that is not known to have practiced head flattening.
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Any fish in the Platycephalidae family.

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A type of screw designed to fit in a countersink so that it sits flush with a surface.

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(automotive) A type of engine that has the valves placed in the engine block beside the piston, instead of in the cylinder head, as in an Overhead Valve engine.

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pronoun
Their Salishan language.
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Other Word Forms of Flathead

Noun

Singular:
Flathead
Plural:
flatheads

Origin of Flathead

  • flat +‎ head, from the practice of compressing the skull in infancy by artificial means. However, the Salish tribe never practised this custom, the confusion arising from the fact that the early traders felt compelled to adopt the local Indian classification, which considered the prevailing compressed skull of the neighbouring tribes as pointed and the naturally shaped Salish skull by contrast as flat.

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  • Translation of French Têtes-Plates flat heads translation of a name used by neighboring tribes (from the fact that the Flathead did not ornamentally taper the skull as neighboring peoples did)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • flat +‎ head

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Flathead Sentence Examples

  • The principal rivers west of the Main Divide of the Rockies are the Clark Fork of the Columbia and its principal tributary, the Flathead, which rises in British Columbia.

  • There is, however, only one large lake in the state - Flathead (or Selish) Lake, which may be regarded as an enlargement of Flathead river; it is 27 m.

  • The climate is generally dry, although less so on the mountains and in the Flathead river basin than on the Great Plains, and is subject to sudden changes and to great extremes of temperature; but the temperature varies more than the amount of precipitation.

  • The rainfall is sufficient for good grazing, but except in the Flathead valley cultivation was long considered to be dependent on irrigation; and consequently farming was only incidental to stock raising and mining until after 1870, and as late as 1900 the ratio of improved farm land to the total land area was less than in any other state or territory except New Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona and Hawaii.

  • The counties where dry farming had been carried on on the largest scale were Missoula, Ravalli, Flathead, Cascade, Fergus and Gallatin, where cereal yields, though not nearly so large as from irrigated lands, were high compared with the average for the country.

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