braehead

plural braeheads

1. Northern EnglandScotlandThe top of a brae.

   The farmhouse is situated on a braehead, beneath the shelter of the rude crags on which the tower of Smailholm is built.

   1871, Charles Stewart Montgomerie Lockhart, The Centenary Memorial of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, page 4

   2 more examples

   On a braehead, S.W. of the town, were the vestiges of an old fortification, called "New Wark," signifying a new erection, situated on the ground new designated "Mill Flat."

   1900, James Miller, Lamp of Lothian, page 32

   Relief and fury drove me mad and I ran along to the braeheads again, where in the gathering darkness the Dyker and grandfather were trying to extract leeks from the garden using hammers and chisels.

   2008, Christopher Rush, Hellfire and Herring: A Childhood Remembered, page 198

1. A number of places in Scotland:
   1. A hamlet south of Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway council area (OS grid ref NX4252).
   2. A shopping centre etc. in Renfrewshire council area, on the banks of the Clyde (OS grid ref NS5267).
   3. A suburb of Ayr, South Ayrshire council area (OS grid ref NS3522).
   4. A hamlet near Thorntonhall, South Lanarkshire council area (OS grid ref NS5955).
   5. A small village north of Carstairs, South Lanarkshire council area (OS grid ref NS9550).
   6. A hamlet next to Coalburn, South Lanarkshire council area (OS grid ref NS8134).
   7. A suburb of Stirling, Stirling council area (OS grid ref NS8092).
   8. A suburb of Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire council area (OS grid ref NS4079).