单词 | headboard |
释义 | headboardn.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > blinkers winkers1583 eye-flap1611 spectacle1632 lunettea1656 headboard1679 blinkers1732 bluff1777 blinder1807 bumblea1825 blind1828 blind-winkers1831 1679 G. Miege Dict. Barbarous French sig. Y/3 Orbiere, a blinding-board, or head-board, hung before the eyes of an unruly beast. 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. I. 379 A Beast to whom a Head-board is..given, to keep his Looks down..and to hinder him from wandring here and there. 1848 W. D. Cooley tr. A. Erman Trav. in Siberia II. i. 9 The reining began: a bone shaped like a half-moon, was placed like a head-board before the antlers of the deer. 2. An upright board or panel placed at the head of something; spec. (a) a board, often upholstered and padded or stuffed, extending across the head of a bed; (b) a board marking the head of a grave; cf. headstone n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > upper end > board at headboard1701 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > parts of bed > [noun] > bedstead > board footboard1650 headboard1701 foot piece1812 headpiece1846 the world > life > death > obsequies > monument > [noun] > other types of memorial shield1817 death-mask1838 headboard1895 haniwa1931 garden of remembrance1954 1701 E. Ward Three Nights Adventures 5 I understood you as to the Trimming of only the Lining and Head-Board, but now I perceive you mean the whole [Bed]. 1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs 34 Deal Head-Boards..avoid. Also Beach-Bedsteds. 1793 T. Sheraton Cabinet-maker & Upholsterer's Drawing-bk. I. i. 114 A stuffed head-board, in a gold frame. 1857 J. Scoffern et al. Useful Metals & their Alloys 574 Entering at so many places in the head-board, the small streams join in the descent. 1895 W. J. Hoffman Beginnings of Writing v. 65 The head-board, erected to the memory of a woman, has displayed upon it various articles used by her in life. 1905 P. Gibbon Vrouw Grobelaar's Leading Cases 137 You might carve a verse on my head-board. 1967 D. Mackenzie Death is Friend 23 The French bed had a velvet padded headboard. 2000 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) 16 Sept. 32/2 (advt.) Beds! with free headboards! 3. Nautical. A piece of upright planking between the headrails of a ship. Usually in plural. Now rare. ΚΠ 1840 A. S. Mackenzie Life of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry II. xii. 137 A boat had been down during the day, and the man-ropes..were coiled up over the headboard. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 374 Head-boards, the berthing or close-boarding between the head-rails. 1952 Mariner's Mirror 38 67 Other parts of the model show hybrid characteristics, such as: side gangways; a scroll-head and head boards..and the ‘Nelson fashion’ painting of the sides. 4. Railways. A board on the front of a train (esp. a steam train) bearing the name of the route, service, etc., for which it is being used. ΚΠ 1898 T. Normington Lanc. & Yorks. Railway 101 Porters exhibiting, on each train, the ‘board’ informing the public the destination of the said train... The guard to see the engine head board changed to the succeeding engine. 1901 Railway Mag. 9 565/2 A rather peculiar looking Midland Railway engine... It had the head-board ‘Aberdeen’. 1972 G. Nabarro Steam Nostalgia 80 (caption) The locomotive bears the ‘Yorkshire Pullman’ headboard. 2012 Steam Days May 291 A well-groomed Stanier ‘Black Five’ class 4–6–0..is pictured at Manchester..station carrying an unofficial ‘Belfast Boat Express’ headboard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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