Definitions for bridgehead

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bridgehead bridge·head

Spelling: [brij-hed]

IPA: /ˈbrɪdʒˌhɛd/

Bridgehead is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 415 anagrams from letters in bridgehead (abddeeghir).

Definitions for bridgehead

noun

1. a position held or to be gained on the enemy side of a river, defile, or other obstacle, to cover the crossing of friendly troops.
2. any position gained that can be used as a foothold for further advancement; beachhead.
3. a defensive work covering or protecting the end of a bridge toward the enemy.

Origin of bridgehead

First recorded in 1805-15; bridge¹ + head

Examples for bridgehead

In that case a clear road for retirement to a bridgehead would be open.

The man with the lantern at the bridgehead at Brod did not know that he held the destiny of Europe in his hand.

But they were moving westward, in the direction of Chateau-Thierry, instead of toward the bridgehead at Dormans.

To avoid useless loss of men, he withdrew the garrison from the bridgehead.

Worth had now been attacking the bridgehead for half an hour or more.

They are going to attempt to set up a bridgehead on British soil.

But Allan knew what it meant, and that the French battery had taken up a position where the gunners could command the bridgehead!

Shortly afterwards the Bavarians seized St. Mihiel and its bridgehead, on the western side of the water.

When they reached the bridgehead on the side of the river remote from the fort, the enemy began to turn and run.

Late in the afternoon the Germans forced their way forward from Tarnopol to as far as the Sereth bridgehead.