promontoried, a.
(ˈprɒməntərɪd)
[f. promontory + -ed2.]
Formed into or furnished with a promontory or projection.
| 1649 G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V ccxxxviii, The floating Bodies, promontoried, Reaks An Exhalation. 1844 Faber Sir Lancelot (1857) 51 The green hill-tops and promontoried steeps. 1891 Cornh. Mag. June 649 They see the promontoried backs and small heads and long necks of some of those ungainly beasts [camels]. |
b. as pa. pple. Pierced as by a promontory.
| 1877 Blackmore Erema II. xxxi. 141 In bays and waves of rolling grass, promontoried, here and there, by jutting copse or massive tree. |