Arrowheaded

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Arrowheaded \Ar"row*head`ed\, a.
     Shaped like the head of an arrow; cuneiform.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Arrowheaded characters}, characters the elements of which
        consist of strokes resembling arrowheads, nailheads, or


        wedges; -- hence called also nail-headed, wedge-formed,
        cuneiform, or cuneatic characters; the oldest written
        characters used in the country about the Tigris and
        Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among
        the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See
        {Cuneiform}.
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