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niemeke puhekieltä A promontory; a cape or headland. (non-gloss definition)
1958: Eric Rücker Eddison, Zimiamvian Trilogy, volume 3: “The Mezentian Gate”, http://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=OXMkTOv0Dpeh_AaC5ZjlBA&ct=result&id=Xa1aAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22ness%22&q=%22sickle-shaped+ness%22 page 177 (Elek Bks.)

Velvraz Sebarm stands upon the lake, among orange-trees and pomegranates and almonds and peaches of the south, a mile north-west over the water from Zayana town, and two miles by land: an old castle built of honey-coloured marble at the tip of a long sickle-shaped ness that sweeps round southwards, with wild gardens running down in the rocks to the water’s edge, and behind the castle a wood of holm-oaks making a wind-break against the north.