naze
(neɪz)
Also 8 nase.
[app. inferred from place-names such as the Naze in Essex or that at the southern extremity of Norway (Lindesnæs).]
A promontory or headland, a ness.
| 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness 93 Furness being a kind of peninsula, or nase or ness of land, as its name imports. 1826 Ewing Geog. (ed. 7) 23 note, Naze, ness, and mull, are also used to signify remarkable portions of land stretching out into the water. 1837 Macdougall tr. Graah's E. Coast Greenland 24 Hiding..the whole actual shore, except here and there some inconsiderable naze. |