Header
['hedə] or ['hɛdɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a headlong jump (or fall); 'he took a header into the shrubbery'.
(noun.) (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head.
(noun.) a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon.
(noun.) a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters.
(noun.) brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall.
(noun.) horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window.
Checked by Carlton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.
(n.) One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader.
(n.) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.
(n.) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.
(n.) A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.
(n.) A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header.
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Examples
- Following the binder in easy sequences came the corn binder, push binder, header and harvester thresher. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This crude machine has in late years been many times re-invented, and it finds a special application to-day for the gathering of clover seeds, and is called a header. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Pliny describes this machine which was used early in the first century and which might be termed a stripping header. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This is struck several rapid blows by a die called the header. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It gave good results but for the accidents from headers, to which it was especially liable. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- And shark-headers is open to misrepresentations. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Edited by Laurence