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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

... along the side of the water every where except in Londa, green frogs spring out at your feet, and light in the water as if taking a "header"; and on the Leeambye and Chobe we have great numbers of small green frogs ('Rana fasciata', Boie), which light on blades of grass with remarkable precision; but on coming along the Leeba I was struck by ...

— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone

... it all right, did you?" The occupant of the tent hitched a suspender over one shoulder and grinned cheerfully. "The kid's took care of! She's with Ma Billings. That was a nasty header you took last night. O. K. now? We gotter pull ...

— Anything Once • Douglas Grant

... they poled up the swift current. The water was deep, and sometimes they bent over the poles till their hands dipped into the water. It seemed as if they must certainly fall overboard. I expected every minute to find myself perforce taking a header into the deep water. Sometimes we brushed the edge of a big ice-bank. The moment the poles were lifted the canoe stopped its forward movement, and if they were not quickly set again it began to slip back with the current. At last the water became too shallow and rough and we went ashore. Here the ...

— A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador • Mina Benson Hubbard (Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Junior)

... firmly in line, and somehow managed to keep her head straight into the shrieking wind, though he frankly confessed that his heart was in his mouth when she took that header. ...

— Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast - or Through Storm and Stress to Florida • Louis Arundel

... as he saw one of the riders suddenly shoot out of his saddle and take a header, to be followed by ...

— The Outdoor Chums After Big Game - Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness • Captain Quincy Allen

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