Associations to the word «Flathead»

Wiktionary

FLATHEAD, noun. Any fish in the Platycephalidae family.
FLATHEAD, noun. A type of screw designed to fit in a countersink so that it sits flush with a surface.
FLATHEAD, noun. (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.
FLATHEAD, noun. One of the Salish people of Washington state and British Columbia.
FLATHEAD, proper noun. Their Salishan language.
FLATHEAD MULLET, noun. An edible fish, of the family Mugilidae, found worldwide in tropical and subtropical coastal waters.

Dictionary definition

FLATHEAD, noun. Food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards.
FLATHEAD, noun. Pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats