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noun

Header n.

One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.

One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. (R.)

(Arch.)

(a)

A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.

(b)

In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.

A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.

A fall or plunge head first, as while riding a bicycle, or a skateboard, or in bathing; sometimes, implying the striking of the head on the ground; as, to take a header. (Colloq.)

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"Header" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Take a header and see," she told him, splashing from the dam and diving straight down, with Phil behind her, until they reached the deep projection, or "angle" as it is called, beneath which lay the entrance to her own particular home. It was very near the bed of the river, where the ...

— The Junior Classics Volume 8 - Animal and Nature Stories • Selected and arranged by William Patten

... serious doubts, and fully expect some day to see Columbine appear on that pistache-green balcony (where the magpie is hanging in a wicker cage), and, taking Arlequin’s hand, disappear into the water-butt while Clown does a header over the half-door, and the cottage itself turns into a gilded coach, with Columbine kissing ...

— The Ways of Men • Eliot Gregory

... was forced to be content. Though sixty years old he still steered the six-horse header in harvest time, tireless and unsubdued. Times were improving slowly, very slowly in Dakota but opportunities for selling his land were still remote. He was not willing to make the necessary sacrifices. "I will not give ...

— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... limited provisions and an unknown journey in front of us. He did exert himself sufficiently on one occasion, however, to dive overboard and capture a turtle. He was sitting moodily in the prow of the boat as usual one afternoon, when suddenly he jumped up, and with a yell took a header overboard, almost capsizing our heavily laden boat. At first I thought he must have gone mad, but on heaving to, I saw him some little distance away in the water struggling with a turtle. He managed to get it on its back after a time, and though I felt annoyed ...

— The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont - as told by Himself • Louis de Rougemont

... this practical world quite another. This world pays dividends. Rising from a little cabin-boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header, chief-mate, and captain, and finally a ship-owner; Bildad, as I hinted before, had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from active life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining days to the quiet receiving of his ...

— Moby-Dick • Melville

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