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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

... a train came puffing along laden with masses of ironwork for the central building. The horses shied at the smoky monster, turned a somersault (at least, so it seemed to me), and we nearly took a header into the lake again; but the charioteer managed to turn them just in time, and the fiery fire-engine steeds snorted past their iron brother, eclipsing even ...

— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Harry Furniss

... top of each page in the original is a header line briefly describing the content on each page. In this document, these header lines have been placed inside square brackets and move to the start of the paragraph which begins ...

— A History of the McGuffey Readers • Henry H. Vail

... swimmer, taught his nephews all sorts of wonderful aquatic feats. We all went daily to the pond at Varolles, and though the men and boys were all proficient in swimming, Charles astonished them by taking a header, preceded by a double somersault, from the top of the wall, and kindling thereby a jealous desire to rival him, so that in a very short time my husband, who hitherto had remained but an indifferent performer, now trod ...

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al

... the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and 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 ...

— Moby-Dick • Melville

... apparently," said the man, sinking down on a log beside the fire. "You must pardon me, sir," he said. "You see, I saw him take a header into the pool from that high rock over yonder, and he never came up again. I thought he ...

— The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land • Ralph Connor

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