headern.

Brit.

/ˈhɛdə/, U.S.

/ˈhɛdər/

Forms: late Middle English hedare, late Middle English heder, late Middle English hedere, late Middle English hefdare, late Middle English hevedare, 1500s heeder, 1500s– header, 1600s 1800s headder, 1800s– yedder (English regional (Cheshire)), 1900s– heider (Scottish).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: head v., -er suffix¹; head n.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < head v. + -er suffix¹, and partly < head n.¹ + -er suffix¹.With sense 4 compare earlier headman n. and headsman n. With sense 5a compare slightly earlier heading course n. at heading n. Compounds 3. With sense 5a compare later head n.¹ 28. In sense 5b apparently a folk-etymological alteration of edder n., on account of such rods being used to form the top of the hedge. With sense 8b compare earlier heading n. 13 and headway n. 2. With sense 11 compare heading n. 7 and later head v. 19b.

†a. An executioner who kills by beheading. Cf. headsman n. 2. Obsolete.

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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > one who beheads

header1440

righter1483

headsman?1562

headman1631

decapitator1820

heading man1825

decollator1843

obtruncatora1864

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 231 Hedare, or hefdare, decapitator.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 113 (MED) An oþer welle did sprynge..and convertede his [sc. St. Alban's] heder in to the feithe of Criste.

1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xii. f. 136 An hangeman or an heeder is odiose to loke vpon.

b. A person who cuts off the head of a fish; (in later use also occasionally) a machine used for this purpose.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > beheader of fish

header1622

throater1846

1622 R. Whitbourne Disc. containing Invitation for Advancem. Plantation in New-found-land 33 Skilfull headders, and splitters of fish.

1715 J. Fontaine Jrnl. 11 Mar. (1972) 68 The boatmen..take the fish and bring it ashore to the splitters, headers, throat cutters, salters and barrow men.

1809 Naval Chron. 21 21 The headder cuts open the fish, tears up its entrails, and..breaks off its head.

1865 All Year Round 24 June 510/1 The hands are divided into throaters, splitters, headers, salters, and packers.

1975 S. R. Delany Dhalgren iv. 338 I was working up and down the gulf coast, as a header on the shrimp boats.

1990 F. Dodman Observer's Bk. Ships (ed. 2) iii. 84 A full equipment of headers, filleters and skinners.

2012 M. G. Blackford Making Seafood Sustainable 248 In the early 2000s fishers received 10 percent of consumers' dollars spent on salmon.., headers and gutters..4 percent.

c. Agriculture. A reaper or other machine which cuts off only the tops of a growing crop. Now historical.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > reaping-machine > types of

jowlc1420

header1852

heading machine1853

self-delivery1853

self-binder1859

self-deliverer1859

reaper-binder1880

string-binder1891

windrower1948

1852 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1851: Agric. 462 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (27th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Exec. Doc. 102, Pt. 2) X The machine..to take the preference of all others now in use is one that will work well as a header, reaper, and mower.

1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 389/1 Here are..no ‘headers’ devouring fields and delivering sacks of clean grain.

1911 Farmers' Bull. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) No. 451. 30 (caption) Grain header at work in a clover field.

1954 K. B. Cumberland Southwest Pacific v. 210 The peas, too, will be harvested by header and sold for cash.

2004 J. Shrock Gilded Age 7 The wheat industry was propelled to new heights of production by the self-binding reaper, header, steam-powered threshers.

d. Agriculture. The cutting head of a combine harvester.Recorded earliest in header frame.

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1908 U.S. Patent 899,432 2/2 The header frame..is mounted to one side of the harvester and operates in the usual manner.

1946 Pop. Mech. Mar. 225/1 The combine header lift makes a handy arrangement for lowering and raising the auger and controlling the rate of feed.

1992 Farm Jrnl. Oct. b3/1 Stripper headers are branching into new areas and operating on virtually every combine on the market.

2009 Classic Tractor Sept. 84/3 The phenomenal detail extends to the..header, which, with some deft fingerwork, can be detached and transported behind the combine on a header trailer.

†2. A person who opposes or attacks something; an opponent. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opponent

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Antarctic1637

contrariant1657

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oppugnanta1834

counterworker1867

contester1884

1537 J. Hilsey in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. lxxxviii. 232 The headers of that truth that God techyth cannot escape just judgment.

a. A person who makes, provides, or fits heads for objects such as nails, pins, etc. In later use also: a machine used for this purpose. Now rare.

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1642 Deposition 9 June in J. Hardiman O'Flaherty's Chorographical Descr. West or H-Iar Connaught (1846) 431 Y^e other Lord Justice..was but a base pynnmaker, or a header of pynnes.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Header, one that heads nails or pins, or the like.

1786 Proc. Old Bailey 25 Oct. 1271/2 I am a header of pins.

1795 T. Jefferson Let. 11 Mar. in Papers (2000) XXVIII. 305 I would be glad to know the cost of the cutting and heading machines [for nail-making]... I could employ a cutter and 3. headers of my own.

1810 National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser 9 Apr. Wanted—two Headers & one Cutter, To the above business [sc. a Cut Nail Manufactory].

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Header, a cooper who closes casks; a workman who heads nails or pins.

1905 Mod. Machinery June 290/3 A new bolt header. The Stanley Works of New Britain, Conn., is the owner of a patent on a machine for heading bolts.

1913 Barrel & Box Apr. 36/2 Each barrel leaves the header's hands to roll to the inspector.

b. In the manufacture of needles: a person who turns needles to face in the same direction prior to drilling the eyes. Now historical and rare.

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1843 Penny Mag. Jan. 40/1 The needles are..passed on to the ‘header’, generally a little girl, whose office is to turn all the heads one way and all the points the other.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 339/2 The heads of the finished needles have now to be brought all in one direction. Formerly this was done by a ‘header’, wearing a cloth cap on one of her fingers.

c. A part of a cigar-making machine used to shape the end of a cigar which goes in the mouth; (also) a person who performs this task. Now rare.

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1862 U.S. Patent 35,728 1/1 J is a scoop-shaped header secured to lever K, which thereby can be raised or lowered, and by which it can be brought up to form the head of the cigar.

1870 Eng. Mech. Mar. 599/1 A ‘header’..shapes the head or mouth end of the cigar.

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Header,..a workman who shapes or finishes the head or mouth-end of a cigar; also, an appliance used for the same purpose.

†a. A person who is the head, chief, captain, or ruler of a group of people; a leader. Obsolete.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > engagement in > person engaged in > party leader

header1660

party leader1705

1660 J. Vicars Dagon Demolished 10 Collonel Rainsborow..a desperate header of the Levellers.

1685 W. Alexander Medulla Historiæ Scoticæ 171 At his coming, the Rebels disperse; the Headers of them submitted to the Kings Mercy.

1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Header..2, one who heads a mob or party.

1882 W. B. Weeden Social Law Labor 94 The header, captain, intertaker..must conduct the operation.

b. Whaling. = boat-header n. Cf. headsman n. 4. rare (historical in later use).

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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whale-hunter > [noun] > skipper of whaling boat

headsman1829

boat-header1835

header1889

1889 Cent. Dict. Header, a ship's mate or other officer in charge of a whale-boat; a boat-header.

1969 M. Hoare Norfolk Island: Outl. Hist. v. 85 Johnstone Nobbs, the ‘header’ of the boat that rescued the survivors, was presented with a large Bible.

a. Bricklaying. A brick or stone laid so that the end shows in the face of the wall, usually with the longest edge of the end running horizontally. Also in extended use: any object laid in this way, esp. as part of a fortification. Frequently contrasted with stretcher n. 10a.A brick or stone laid in the same way but with the shortest edge of the end running horizontally is also known as a rowlock (see rowlock n.²).

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick

hirne-stonec1000

parpen1252

coin1350

coin-stone1350

angler1365

parpal1369

corner-stonea1382

cunye1387

tuss1412

quoin1532

table stone1554

quoining1562

copestone1567

ground-stone1567

lock bandc1582

quinyie1588

perpender1611

whelmer1618

parpen stone1633

capstone1665

headera1684

through1683

quoin-stone1688

stretcher1693

closer1700

bed-stone1723

coping-brick1725

girder1726

footstone1728

heading brick1731

bossage1736

lewis-hole1740

shoulder1744

headstone1745

pawl1753

tail-bond1776

coping-stone1778

slocking-stone1778

throughband1794

through-stone1797

stretching-bond1805

core1823

keystone1823

tail-binder1828

stretching-stone1833

header brick1841

coign1843

pawl-stone1844

bay-stone1845

bonder1845

pillar-stone1854

bond-piece1862

stretcher-brick1867

toothing-stone1875

bond-stone1879

pierpoint1891

jumper1904

tush1905

padstone1944

a1684 R. Pratt Note-bk. in R. T. Gunther Archit. Sir R. Pratt (1928) 230 (modernized text) One course of headers, the other of stretchers.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory 261 Header, is the laying the end of a Brick in the outside of a wall.

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 36 The Header half the length of the Stretcher.

1725 W. Halfpenny Art of Sound Building 51 The Course..consists of two Streachers and one Header.

1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 59 The third kind of revetment is made with sods of unequal sizes, called headers and stretchers.

1852 C. B. Stuart Naval Dry Docks U.S. 27 The beds of the stone..in the header courses [are] from four to five feet deep.

1884 Instr. Mil. Engin. (ed. 3) I. ii. 73 Making good the interval between parapet and gabions with filled sandbags, header, and stretcher.

1936 Archit. Rev. 79 241/3 Monk bond..is popular in the North of Europe. Two stretchers are followed by one header in every course.

1983 S. S. Weinberg Bamboula at Kourion: Archit. 49/2 The outer wall..is composed of many large stones, some laid as headers through the wall.

2004 S. Koones House about It iv. 120/1 Bonds..are laid in patterns of stretchers, soldiers and headers.

b. A long slender rod or stick interlaced between the tops of the stakes of a hedge; = edder n. Now rare.

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the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] > material for hedging

hedging1517

plashera1722

header1837

1837 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. xliii. 539 The hedge is finished by placing the headers. These are long slender rods; a couple of which are worked on at the same time, and which are alternately turned over each other, and zig-zagly between the stakes.

1839 J. Main Young Farmer's Man. 31 Most farms in the south of England possess a piece of coppice, or hedges, or pollard trees, whence a supply of poles for hurdle-making and stakes, and headers for hedging, are obtained.

1895 W. J. Malden Workman's Tech. Instructor xii. 152 When sufficient wattle is worked around the stakes, the header, or edder, should be put on.

1941 Archit. Rev. 89 85/2 The ‘pleaches’ too are rammed down, and when several yards are ready the two men work in the headers, which are slender and straight rods, twisted over and across, in and out of the stakes.

†c. U.S. A top layer or covering. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer > top or superficial

facing1586

scarf-skin1669

heading1779

header1868

fronting1886

1868 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1865–6 6 641 Prime Pork—Shall be packed with a header of side cuts, the regular width, three half heads.

d. Engineering. A pipe or tube to which a set of other pipes or tubes are connected in parallel; a manifold.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > feeders or suppliers

feeder1669

injector1744

hopper1763

supplier1823

header1867

sight feed1888

filter feed1901

feed-box1902

1867 U.S. Patent 67,503 1 The upper header C is provided with a valve or stop-cock, D, for the purpose of allowing the air to escape from the coil as the steam is admitted.

1889 C. T. Davis Pract. Treat. Manuf. Bricks (ed. 2) xiv. 428 The steam pipes..should consist of numerous single lines of one-inch pipe connected with a four-inch header at both inlet and outlet.

1930 Engineering 25 July 121/1 They contain four headers, which are turned from solid mild-steel forgings.

1975 Amer. Motorcyclist Sept. 25/3 If the exhaust tract needs cleaning, disconnect the header pipe and scrape out the exhaust tract.

2002 M. Smith et al. in P. Winkle Power Generation Retrofitting iv. 46 High temperature differentials between adjacent tubes result in undue stress in headers.

†6. Boxing. A blow to the head. Obsolete.

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1818 Sporting Mag. 2 xl. 279 The latter almost instantly surprised Johnson with another header.

1899 D. A. Dickert Hist. Kershaw's Brigade 381 Then John was ready by this time to receive a ‘header’ under the chin.

a. Chiefly colloquial. A dive or plunge head first. Frequently in to take a header. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > plunging > a plunge head first

header1835

nosedive1919

1835 New Sporting Mag. Apr. 386 After getting a header into a brook, he shrugged up his shoulders, exclaiming,—‘Is it vone disgrace to get a tomble?’

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. xxvii. 437 Till we..take our final header out of this riddle of a world.

1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xiv. 113 The delights of a header off a rock ten feet high, and an unknown depth of clear, cold water below.

1909 Chatterbox 262/1 The Vice-Consul..sprang upon the taffrail and took a header after him into the water.

1977 A. Cooke Six Men i. 31 Neither in love nor in friendship did he ever tread water. He regularly took a header into deep water.

2011 Vanity Fair Feb. 91/1 You're a father teaching his daughter to ride a bike, watching as she takes a header on her first solo try.

†b. A person who dives head first; a diver. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > diving into water > one who or that which

ducker1483

diver1511

water?1570

plunger1611

header1848

belly flopper1895

1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich iii. 58 There they bathed, of course, and Arthur, the glory of headers, Leapt from the ledges with Hope, he twenty feet, he thirty.

8. Mining.

a. A person who or machine which drives a heading or horizontal tunnel. Cf. head n.¹ 45, heading n. 13. Now historical.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > boring tool > for boring in the ground

auger1532

borer1572

boring-rod?1677

wimble1693

well borer1780

rock drill1836

miser1842

bore-rod1849

header1863

well drill1866

rig1875

well rig1875

trepan1877

broaching-bit1881

heading machine1897

1863 H. D. Hoskold Pract. Treat. Mining 94 The surveyor..may..set the headers to work, driving the tunnel on this bearing from G.

1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Header, a collier or coal cutter who drives a head.

1903 Trans. Manch. Geol. & Mining Soc. 28 93 These headers for hard coal in narrow work are a great saving of labour.

1988 K. Dix What's Coal Miner to do? 35 The McKinlay entry driver was patterned after the early Stanley header, a British import from the late 1880s.

b. = heading n. 13.

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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > horizontal

drift1653

sump1681

heading1811

driftway1843

drive1856

day drift1859

downdrift1868

header1872

1872 Rep. Comm. Sutro Tunnel 196 Will we not complete our tunnel quicker by pushing in our drift, or ‘header’, as it is called, as fast as we can?

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 165 The header had reached..a length of 12,259 feet.

1988 R. J. Brugger Maryland vii. 339 In the coal fields tension between ownership and labor had as many sources as the headers had rats.

1998 H. H. Hickam Rocket Boys i. 8 Drenched in rock dust and sweat, his section punched through the header into the..purest coal anyone had ever seen.

9. Association Football.

a. A shot, pass, or clearance made by heading the ball (see head v. 23).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres

holding1866

hand-balling1867

left-footer1874

header1875

handball1879

goal kick1881

corner1882

spot kick1884

middle1899

clearance1920

cross-kick1927

cross-pass1929

body swerve1933

open goal1934

headball1936

chip1939

through-ball1956

wall pass1958

outswinger1959

cross1961

overlap1969

blooter1976

hospital pass1978

route one1978

sidefoot1979

top bin1999

ankle-biting2001

1875 Glasgow Herald 23 Feb. 7/5 Campbell put it under the tape by a beautiful header. The goal was disputed by the Barrhead.

1897 Bristol Times & Mirror 4 Jan. 6/2 A header from Brain opened the score sheet.

1927 Daily Express 20 Apr. 13/2 Trotter gave the home club the lead with a beautiful header.

1981 Times 28 Jan. 12/2 Mariner's superb header found Wark, whose attempt re-bounded to Gates.

2010 C. A. Lisi U.S. Women's Soccer Team i. 14 She..scored again, this time from a diving header.

b. With modifying adjective: a person who heads the ball with the level of ability indicated.

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1906 L. V. Lodge in B. O. Corbett Ann. Corinthian Football Club 188 A back must be not only a good kick and sound tackler, but at the same time an accurate header.

1953 Manch. Guardian 18 Dec. 3/6 He is an expert header of the ball.

1973 World Soccer Aug. 24 Where have all the good headers gone?

2008 J. Drewett How to improve Soccer 20 You don't have to be tall to be a good header of the ball—the secret is timing and bravery.

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a. Originally U.S. A headline for an article in a newspaper, journal, etc.; (also) a heading or title at the top of a page or section of text.

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1896 Daily News Standard (Uniontown, Pa.) 22 July The Pittsburg Post..displays double column headers on ‘Republican senators coming out for Bryan’.

1913 A. R. Bond With Men who do Things vii. 58 In the evening Mr. Watson dropped in with a copy of the Evening Sphere, and proudly showed us a three-column header on the fire.

1969 Greenfield (Mass.) Daily Recorder 24 Jan. 7/7 It has been credited to John Ruskin, although we met it under the header—Who is the Author?

1982 Billboard 15 May 4/2 A plain sheet of paper on which is typed the header: Rock Music. Does It Have A Secret Message ?

2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 17 July (Appointments section) 3 I saw the CV of one senior manager and stuck down the bottom under the header ‘education’ was the fact that he had recently completed an MBA.

b. Computing. Introductory or summary data, typically generated in a standard text format; spec. (a) the part of an email preceding the message, containing details such as its subject, sender, and place of origin; (also) each of the fields in this part of an email; (b) the part of an HTML document preceding the body, containing details such as its title, description, and document type. Cf. body n. 6k.

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1956 Establishing Integrated Data-processing Syst. (Amer. Managem. Assoc. Special Rep. No. 11) v. 36 Header and foot information (to control routing and switching) had to be added to the tape as it was received.

1985 Newsweek (Nexis) 18 Mar. The information is broken into discrete packets, each with an identifying ‘header’.

1992 IEEE Spectrum Mar. 26/1 With a standardized or universal header/descriptor, any video stream could be recognized by any device, whether a TV receiver, computer, or workstation.

2012 Guardian Unlimited (Nexis) 2 Apr. Even an encrypted email will usually include the addresses of the sender and the recipient in its headers.

c. In word processing: a section at the top of each page of a document, typically containing the running title, pagination, or similar information; (also) the text positioned here. Contrasted with footer n.¹ 6.Recorded earliest in page header.

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1976 Computerworld 5 July 9/2 The terminals were served by Ultra-Text word-processing software with good page header, footnoting, sub- and superscripting operations.

1982 InfoWorld 24 May 33/1 Each page of the listing has a header, with page number, date, time and program name. The headers are produced on the screen as well as in printout form.

1992 N. Gehani Document Formatting & Typesetting on Unix Syst. (ed. 2) ii. 44 For example, .MT 5 ‘Narain Gehani’ will produce the header Narain Gehani - i.

2001 Working from Home Mar. 36/2 All the background elements which appear on every page—headers, footers and page numbers.

11. Chiefly New Zealand and Australian. A dog trained to head off sheep or cattle so as to stop them or guide them in a particular direction; = heading dog n. at heading n. Compounds 3. Cf. heeler n.² 6a, huntaway n. a.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > sheepdog > [noun] > with specific job or character

boundary dog1876

leading dog1897

header1903

strong eye1910

huntaway1913

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > action of sheep-dog > sheep-dog

sheep-doga1774

header1903

heading dog1913

tripe-hound1923

1903 Wool Markets & Sheep (Chicago) Sept. 6/1 You frequently hear persons speak of their Shepherd pups as being headers and heelers. The header is the one that always runs to the head of the animals.

1938 R. M. Burdon High Country x. 107 Dogs are usually kept in the proportion of three or four huntaways to one header now.

1973 Times 13 Oct. 14/4 Early British sheep dogs were..divided into those which fetched the sheep and those which drove them away, as still occurs in New Zealand with header and hunt-away.

2004 Southland Times (N.Z.) (Nexis) 7 July 12 The book covers the basics well from buying a pup to fully training a header or huntaway.

12. North American. In the rodeo event of team roping: the rider who ropes the head (as opposed to the back legs) of a steer. Cf. heeler n.² 8.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > rodeo > [noun] > participants

bull rider1829

bull-dogger1907

steer roper1910

steer wrestler1910

header1927

heeler1927

pickup man1930

1927 C. McTavish in Progressive Arizona Feb. 7/2 The header and his heeler, mounted and with ropes looped and coiled, wait tensley the signal that will send them out for the test of their skill.

1948 Yuma (Arizona) Daily Sun 9 Feb. 11/2 The header ropes the steer around the head or horns and forces the animal to travel in a circle around him until the heeler can throw.

1987 Texas Monthly Nov. 193/1 The header's role is the more cerebral—it's her ability to read the body language of a steer and anticipate its moves that often determines whether the heeler will have a decent shot at its feet.

2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Aug. (Sports section) 6/4 In an event known as team roping, one header and one heeler work together to rope a calf while on horseback.

Compounds

header-board n. rare a diving board.

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1892 Gentlewoman's Bk. Sports i. 120 We have a headerboard fixed up 7 feet above the water.

1934 E. F. Benson More Spook Stories 245 There were photographs on it, one of a boy standing on the header-board at the bathing pool about to plunge.

header brick n. [compare earlier heading brick n. and heading course n. at heading n. Compounds 3] Bricklaying a brick or stone laid with its end showing in the face of the wall; cf. sense 5a.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick

hirne-stonec1000

parpen1252

coin1350

coin-stone1350

angler1365

parpal1369

corner-stonea1382

cunye1387

tuss1412

quoin1532

table stone1554

quoining1562

copestone1567

ground-stone1567

lock bandc1582

quinyie1588

perpender1611

whelmer1618

parpen stone1633

capstone1665

headera1684

through1683

quoin-stone1688

stretcher1693

closer1700

bed-stone1723

coping-brick1725

girder1726

footstone1728

heading brick1731

bossage1736

lewis-hole1740

shoulder1744

headstone1745

pawl1753

tail-bond1776

coping-stone1778

slocking-stone1778

throughband1794

through-stone1797

stretching-bond1805

core1823

keystone1823

tail-binder1828

stretching-stone1833

header brick1841

coign1843

pawl-stone1844

bay-stone1845

bonder1845

pillar-stone1854

bond-piece1862

stretcher-brick1867

toothing-stone1875

bond-stone1879

pierpoint1891

jumper1904

tush1905

padstone1944

1841 T. L. Walker Ess. on Archit. Pract. I. p. xiii The same is to be well and securely bonded into the thick wall of the vaults, by as many of the ‘header bricks’ as the clerk of the works shall direct.

1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Scaffolding 24 Cavities in the brickwork obtained by leaving out ‘header’ bricks at proper intervals.

2007 Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. 56 The brick flank facing the church is sprinkled with darker header bricks.

header tank n. a tank for water or other liquid at the top or head of something; spec. an elevated water tank maintaining pressure in a water supply through gravity.

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1921 U.S. Patent 1,389,745 1/2 The top header tank through which the water tubes communicate.

1946 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 50 136/2 These tubes are fitted 5 rows wide and 12 deep into header tanks, by means of gland nuts.

1990 W. A. Livesey GCSE Motor Vehicle Stud. vi. 57 As the cooling water is heated up in the cylinder block it rises through the top hose into the radiator header tank.

2012 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 2 Aug. 1 Particular attention should be paid to water storage and header tanks.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	header
释义	headern. Brit. /ˈhɛdə/, U.S. /ˈhɛdər/ Forms: late Middle English hedare, late Middle English heder, late Middle English hedere, late Middle English hefdare, late Middle English hevedare, 1500s heeder, 1500s– header, 1600s 1800s headder, 1800s– yedder (English regional (Cheshire)), 1900s– heider (Scottish). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: head v., -er suffix¹; head n.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < head v. + -er suffix¹, and partly < head n.¹ + -er suffix¹.With sense 4 compare earlier headman n. and headsman n. With sense 5a compare slightly earlier heading course n. at heading n. Compounds 3. With sense 5a compare later head n.¹ 28. In sense 5b apparently a folk-etymological alteration of edder n., on account of such rods being used to form the top of the hedge. With sense 8b compare earlier heading n. 13 and headway n. 2. With sense 11 compare heading n. 7 and later head v. 19b. 1. †a. An executioner who kills by beheading. Cf. headsman n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > one who beheads header1440 righter1483 headsman?1562 headman1631 decapitator1820 heading man1825 decollator1843 obtruncatora1864 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 231 Hedare, or hefdare, decapitator. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 113 (MED) An oþer welle did sprynge..and convertede his [sc. St. Alban's] heder in to the feithe of Criste. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xii. f. 136 An hangeman or an heeder is odiose to loke vpon. b. A person who cuts off the head of a fish; (in later use also occasionally) a machine used for this purpose. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > beheader of fish header1622 throater1846 1622 R. Whitbourne Disc. containing Invitation for Advancem. Plantation in New-found-land 33 Skilfull headders, and splitters of fish. 1715 J. Fontaine Jrnl. 11 Mar. (1972) 68 The boatmen..take the fish and bring it ashore to the splitters, headers, throat cutters, salters and barrow men. 1809 Naval Chron. 21 21 The headder cuts open the fish, tears up its entrails, and..breaks off its head. 1865 All Year Round 24 June 510/1 The hands are divided into throaters, splitters, headers, salters, and packers. 1975 S. R. Delany Dhalgren iv. 338 I was working up and down the gulf coast, as a header on the shrimp boats. 1990 F. Dodman Observer's Bk. Ships (ed. 2) iii. 84 A full equipment of headers, filleters and skinners. 2012 M. G. Blackford Making Seafood Sustainable 248 In the early 2000s fishers received 10 percent of consumers' dollars spent on salmon.., headers and gutters..4 percent. c. Agriculture. A reaper or other machine which cuts off only the tops of a growing crop. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > reaping-machine > types of jowlc1420 header1852 heading machine1853 self-delivery1853 self-binder1859 self-deliverer1859 reaper-binder1880 string-binder1891 windrower1948 1852 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1851: Agric. 462 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (27th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Exec. Doc. 102, Pt. 2) X The machine..to take the preference of all others now in use is one that will work well as a header, reaper, and mower. 1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 389/1 Here are..no ‘headers’ devouring fields and delivering sacks of clean grain. 1911 Farmers' Bull. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) No. 451. 30 (caption) Grain header at work in a clover field. 1954 K. B. Cumberland Southwest Pacific v. 210 The peas, too, will be harvested by header and sold for cash. 2004 J. Shrock Gilded Age 7 The wheat industry was propelled to new heights of production by the self-binding reaper, header, steam-powered threshers. d. Agriculture. The cutting head of a combine harvester.Recorded earliest in header frame. ΚΠ 1908 U.S. Patent 899,432 2/2 The header frame..is mounted to one side of the harvester and operates in the usual manner. 1946 Pop. Mech. Mar. 225/1 The combine header lift makes a handy arrangement for lowering and raising the auger and controlling the rate of feed. 1992 Farm Jrnl. Oct. b3/1 Stripper headers are branching into new areas and operating on virtually every combine on the market. 2009 Classic Tractor Sept. 84/3 The phenomenal detail extends to the..header, which, with some deft fingerwork, can be detached and transported behind the combine on a header trailer. †2. A person who opposes or attacks something; an opponent. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opponent adversaryc1350 contraryc1405 overthwarter?c1450 party1488 opposant1489 oppositec1500 encounterer1523 oppugner1535 header1537 opponent1553 antagonist1555 crosser1565 adverse1593 oppositor1598 oppugnator1611 stickler1612 opposera1616 antipos1631 thwarter1633 Antarctic1637 contrariant1657 foe1697 oppositionist1786 oppugnanta1834 counterworker1867 contester1884 1537 J. Hilsey in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. lxxxviii. 232 The headers of that truth that God techyth cannot escape just judgment. 3. a. A person who makes, provides, or fits heads for objects such as nails, pins, etc. In later use also: a machine used for this purpose. Now rare. ΚΠ 1642 Deposition 9 June in J. Hardiman O'Flaherty's Chorographical Descr. West or H-Iar Connaught (1846) 431 Y^e other Lord Justice..was but a base pynnmaker, or a header of pynnes. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Header, one that heads nails or pins, or the like. 1786 Proc. Old Bailey 25 Oct. 1271/2 I am a header of pins. 1795 T. Jefferson Let. 11 Mar. in Papers (2000) XXVIII. 305 I would be glad to know the cost of the cutting and heading machines [for nail-making]... I could employ a cutter and 3. headers of my own. 1810 National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser 9 Apr. Wanted—two Headers & one Cutter, To the above business [sc. a Cut Nail Manufactory]. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Header, a cooper who closes casks; a workman who heads nails or pins. 1905 Mod. Machinery June 290/3 A new bolt header. The Stanley Works of New Britain, Conn., is the owner of a patent on a machine for heading bolts. 1913 Barrel & Box Apr. 36/2 Each barrel leaves the header's hands to roll to the inspector. b. In the manufacture of needles: a person who turns needles to face in the same direction prior to drilling the eyes. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1843 Penny Mag. Jan. 40/1 The needles are..passed on to the ‘header’, generally a little girl, whose office is to turn all the heads one way and all the points the other. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 339/2 The heads of the finished needles have now to be brought all in one direction. Formerly this was done by a ‘header’, wearing a cloth cap on one of her fingers. c. A part of a cigar-making machine used to shape the end of a cigar which goes in the mouth; (also) a person who performs this task. Now rare. ΚΠ 1862 U.S. Patent 35,728 1/1 J is a scoop-shaped header secured to lever K, which thereby can be raised or lowered, and by which it can be brought up to form the head of the cigar. 1870 Eng. Mech. Mar. 599/1 A ‘header’..shapes the head or mouth end of the cigar. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Header,..a workman who shapes or finishes the head or mouth-end of a cigar; also, an appliance used for the same purpose. 4. †a. A person who is the head, chief, captain, or ruler of a group of people; a leader. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > engagement in > person engaged in > party leader header1660 party leader1705 1660 J. Vicars Dagon Demolished 10 Collonel Rainsborow..a desperate header of the Levellers. 1685 W. Alexander Medulla Historiæ Scoticæ 171 At his coming, the Rebels disperse; the Headers of them submitted to the Kings Mercy. 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Header..2, one who heads a mob or party. 1882 W. B. Weeden Social Law Labor 94 The header, captain, intertaker..must conduct the operation. b. Whaling. = boat-header n. Cf. headsman n. 4. rare (historical in later use). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whale-hunter > [noun] > skipper of whaling boat headsman1829 boat-header1835 header1889 1889 Cent. Dict. Header, a ship's mate or other officer in charge of a whale-boat; a boat-header. 1969 M. Hoare Norfolk Island: Outl. Hist. v. 85 Johnstone Nobbs, the ‘header’ of the boat that rescued the survivors, was presented with a large Bible. 5. a. Bricklaying. A brick or stone laid so that the end shows in the face of the wall, usually with the longest edge of the end running horizontally. Also in extended use: any object laid in this way, esp. as part of a fortification. Frequently contrasted with stretcher n. 10a.A brick or stone laid in the same way but with the shortest edge of the end running horizontally is also known as a rowlock (see rowlock n.²). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick hirne-stonec1000 parpen1252 coin1350 coin-stone1350 angler1365 parpal1369 corner-stonea1382 cunye1387 tuss1412 quoin1532 table stone1554 quoining1562 copestone1567 ground-stone1567 lock bandc1582 quinyie1588 perpender1611 whelmer1618 parpen stone1633 capstone1665 headera1684 through1683 quoin-stone1688 stretcher1693 closer1700 bed-stone1723 coping-brick1725 girder1726 footstone1728 heading brick1731 bossage1736 lewis-hole1740 shoulder1744 headstone1745 pawl1753 tail-bond1776 coping-stone1778 slocking-stone1778 throughband1794 through-stone1797 stretching-bond1805 core1823 keystone1823 tail-binder1828 stretching-stone1833 header brick1841 coign1843 pawl-stone1844 bay-stone1845 bonder1845 pillar-stone1854 bond-piece1862 stretcher-brick1867 toothing-stone1875 bond-stone1879 pierpoint1891 jumper1904 tush1905 padstone1944 a1684 R. Pratt Note-bk. in R. T. Gunther Archit. Sir R. Pratt (1928) 230 (modernized text) One course of headers, the other of stretchers. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory 261 Header, is the laying the end of a Brick in the outside of a wall. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 36 The Header half the length of the Stretcher. 1725 W. Halfpenny Art of Sound Building 51 The Course..consists of two Streachers and one Header. 1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 59 The third kind of revetment is made with sods of unequal sizes, called headers and stretchers. 1852 C. B. Stuart Naval Dry Docks U.S. 27 The beds of the stone..in the header courses [are] from four to five feet deep. 1884 Instr. Mil. Engin. (ed. 3) I. ii. 73 Making good the interval between parapet and gabions with filled sandbags, header, and stretcher. 1936 Archit. Rev. 79 241/3 Monk bond..is popular in the North of Europe. Two stretchers are followed by one header in every course. 1983 S. S. Weinberg Bamboula at Kourion: Archit. 49/2 The outer wall..is composed of many large stones, some laid as headers through the wall. 2004 S. Koones House about It iv. 120/1 Bonds..are laid in patterns of stretchers, soldiers and headers. b. A long slender rod or stick interlaced between the tops of the stakes of a hedge; = edder n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] > material for hedging hedging1517 plashera1722 header1837 1837 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. xliii. 539 The hedge is finished by placing the headers. These are long slender rods; a couple of which are worked on at the same time, and which are alternately turned over each other, and zig-zagly between the stakes. 1839 J. Main Young Farmer's Man. 31 Most farms in the south of England possess a piece of coppice, or hedges, or pollard trees, whence a supply of poles for hurdle-making and stakes, and headers for hedging, are obtained. 1895 W. J. Malden Workman's Tech. Instructor xii. 152 When sufficient wattle is worked around the stakes, the header, or edder, should be put on. 1941 Archit. Rev. 89 85/2 The ‘pleaches’ too are rammed down, and when several yards are ready the two men work in the headers, which are slender and straight rods, twisted over and across, in and out of the stakes. †c. U.S. A top layer or covering. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer > top or superficial facing1586 scarf-skin1669 heading1779 header1868 fronting1886 1868 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1865–6 6 641 Prime Pork—Shall be packed with a header of side cuts, the regular width, three half heads. d. Engineering. A pipe or tube to which a set of other pipes or tubes are connected in parallel; a manifold. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > feeders or suppliers feeder1669 injector1744 hopper1763 supplier1823 header1867 sight feed1888 filter feed1901 feed-box1902 1867 U.S. Patent 67,503 1 The upper header C is provided with a valve or stop-cock, D, for the purpose of allowing the air to escape from the coil as the steam is admitted. 1889 C. T. Davis Pract. Treat. Manuf. Bricks (ed. 2) xiv. 428 The steam pipes..should consist of numerous single lines of one-inch pipe connected with a four-inch header at both inlet and outlet. 1930 Engineering 25 July 121/1 They contain four headers, which are turned from solid mild-steel forgings. 1975 Amer. Motorcyclist Sept. 25/3 If the exhaust tract needs cleaning, disconnect the header pipe and scrape out the exhaust tract. 2002 M. Smith et al. in P. Winkle Power Generation Retrofitting iv. 46 High temperature differentials between adjacent tubes result in undue stress in headers. †6. Boxing. A blow to the head. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1818 Sporting Mag. 2 xl. 279 The latter almost instantly surprised Johnson with another header. 1899 D. A. Dickert Hist. Kershaw's Brigade 381 Then John was ready by this time to receive a ‘header’ under the chin. 7. a. Chiefly colloquial. A dive or plunge head first. Frequently in to take a header. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > plunging > a plunge head first header1835 nosedive1919 1835 New Sporting Mag. Apr. 386 After getting a header into a brook, he shrugged up his shoulders, exclaiming,—‘Is it vone disgrace to get a tomble?’ 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. xxvii. 437 Till we..take our final header out of this riddle of a world. 1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xiv. 113 The delights of a header off a rock ten feet high, and an unknown depth of clear, cold water below. 1909 Chatterbox 262/1 The Vice-Consul..sprang upon the taffrail and took a header after him into the water. 1977 A. Cooke Six Men i. 31 Neither in love nor in friendship did he ever tread water. He regularly took a header into deep water. 2011 Vanity Fair Feb. 91/1 You're a father teaching his daughter to ride a bike, watching as she takes a header on her first solo try. †b. A person who dives head first; a diver. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > diving into water > one who or that which ducker1483 diver1511 water?1570 plunger1611 header1848 belly flopper1895 1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich iii. 58 There they bathed, of course, and Arthur, the glory of headers, Leapt from the ledges with Hope, he twenty feet, he thirty. 8. Mining. a. A person who or machine which drives a heading or horizontal tunnel. Cf. head n.¹ 45, heading n. 13. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > boring tool > for boring in the ground auger1532 borer1572 boring-rod?1677 wimble1693 well borer1780 rock drill1836 miser1842 bore-rod1849 header1863 well drill1866 rig1875 well rig1875 trepan1877 broaching-bit1881 heading machine1897 1863 H. D. Hoskold Pract. Treat. Mining 94 The surveyor..may..set the headers to work, driving the tunnel on this bearing from G. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Header, a collier or coal cutter who drives a head. 1903 Trans. Manch. Geol. & Mining Soc. 28 93 These headers for hard coal in narrow work are a great saving of labour. 1988 K. Dix What's Coal Miner to do? 35 The McKinlay entry driver was patterned after the early Stanley header, a British import from the late 1880s. b. = heading n. 13. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > horizontal drift1653 sump1681 heading1811 driftway1843 drive1856 day drift1859 downdrift1868 header1872 1872 Rep. Comm. Sutro Tunnel 196 Will we not complete our tunnel quicker by pushing in our drift, or ‘header’, as it is called, as fast as we can? 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 165 The header had reached..a length of 12,259 feet. 1988 R. J. Brugger Maryland vii. 339 In the coal fields tension between ownership and labor had as many sources as the headers had rats. 1998 H. H. Hickam Rocket Boys i. 8 Drenched in rock dust and sweat, his section punched through the header into the..purest coal anyone had ever seen. 9. Association Football. a. A shot, pass, or clearance made by heading the ball (see head v. 23). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres holding1866 hand-balling1867 left-footer1874 header1875 handball1879 goal kick1881 corner1882 spot kick1884 middle1899 clearance1920 cross-kick1927 cross-pass1929 body swerve1933 open goal1934 headball1936 chip1939 through-ball1956 wall pass1958 outswinger1959 cross1961 overlap1969 blooter1976 hospital pass1978 route one1978 sidefoot1979 top bin1999 ankle-biting2001 1875 Glasgow Herald 23 Feb. 7/5 Campbell put it under the tape by a beautiful header. The goal was disputed by the Barrhead. 1897 Bristol Times & Mirror 4 Jan. 6/2 A header from Brain opened the score sheet. 1927 Daily Express 20 Apr. 13/2 Trotter gave the home club the lead with a beautiful header. 1981 Times 28 Jan. 12/2 Mariner's superb header found Wark, whose attempt re-bounded to Gates. 2010 C. A. Lisi U.S. Women's Soccer Team i. 14 She..scored again, this time from a diving header. b. With modifying adjective: a person who heads the ball with the level of ability indicated. ΚΠ 1906 L. V. Lodge in B. O. Corbett Ann. Corinthian Football Club 188 A back must be not only a good kick and sound tackler, but at the same time an accurate header. 1953 Manch. Guardian 18 Dec. 3/6 He is an expert header of the ball. 1973 World Soccer Aug. 24 Where have all the good headers gone? 2008 J. Drewett How to improve Soccer 20 You don't have to be tall to be a good header of the ball—the secret is timing and bravery. 10. a. Originally U.S. A headline for an article in a newspaper, journal, etc.; (also) a heading or title at the top of a page or section of text. ΚΠ 1896 Daily News Standard (Uniontown, Pa.) 22 July The Pittsburg Post..displays double column headers on ‘Republican senators coming out for Bryan’. 1913 A. R. Bond With Men who do Things vii. 58 In the evening Mr. Watson dropped in with a copy of the Evening Sphere, and proudly showed us a three-column header on the fire. 1969 Greenfield (Mass.) Daily Recorder 24 Jan. 7/7 It has been credited to John Ruskin, although we met it under the header—Who is the Author? 1982 Billboard 15 May 4/2 A plain sheet of paper on which is typed the header: Rock Music. Does It Have A Secret Message ? 2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 17 July (Appointments section) 3 I saw the CV of one senior manager and stuck down the bottom under the header ‘education’ was the fact that he had recently completed an MBA. b. Computing. Introductory or summary data, typically generated in a standard text format; spec. (a) the part of an email preceding the message, containing details such as its subject, sender, and place of origin; (also) each of the fields in this part of an email; (b) the part of an HTML document preceding the body, containing details such as its title, description, and document type. Cf. body n. 6k. ΚΠ 1956 Establishing Integrated Data-processing Syst. (Amer. Managem. Assoc. Special Rep. No. 11) v. 36 Header and foot information (to control routing and switching) had to be added to the tape as it was received. 1985 Newsweek (Nexis) 18 Mar. The information is broken into discrete packets, each with an identifying ‘header’. 1992 IEEE Spectrum Mar. 26/1 With a standardized or universal header/descriptor, any video stream could be recognized by any device, whether a TV receiver, computer, or workstation. 2012 Guardian Unlimited (Nexis) 2 Apr. Even an encrypted email will usually include the addresses of the sender and the recipient in its headers. c. In word processing: a section at the top of each page of a document, typically containing the running title, pagination, or similar information; (also) the text positioned here. Contrasted with footer n.¹ 6.Recorded earliest in page header. ΚΠ 1976 Computerworld 5 July 9/2 The terminals were served by Ultra-Text word-processing software with good page header, footnoting, sub- and superscripting operations. 1982 InfoWorld 24 May 33/1 Each page of the listing has a header, with page number, date, time and program name. The headers are produced on the screen as well as in printout form. 1992 N. Gehani Document Formatting & Typesetting on Unix Syst. (ed. 2) ii. 44 For example, .MT 5 ‘Narain Gehani’ will produce the header Narain Gehani - i. 2001 Working from Home Mar. 36/2 All the background elements which appear on every page—headers, footers and page numbers. 11. Chiefly New Zealand and Australian. A dog trained to head off sheep or cattle so as to stop them or guide them in a particular direction; = heading dog n. at heading n. Compounds 3. Cf. heeler n.² 6a, huntaway n. a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > sheepdog > [noun] > with specific job or character boundary dog1876 leading dog1897 header1903 strong eye1910 huntaway1913 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > action of sheep-dog > sheep-dog sheep-doga1774 header1903 heading dog1913 tripe-hound1923 1903 Wool Markets & Sheep (Chicago) Sept. 6/1 You frequently hear persons speak of their Shepherd pups as being headers and heelers. The header is the one that always runs to the head of the animals. 1938 R. M. Burdon High Country x. 107 Dogs are usually kept in the proportion of three or four huntaways to one header now. 1973 Times 13 Oct. 14/4 Early British sheep dogs were..divided into those which fetched the sheep and those which drove them away, as still occurs in New Zealand with header and hunt-away. 2004 Southland Times (N.Z.) (Nexis) 7 July 12 The book covers the basics well from buying a pup to fully training a header or huntaway. 12. North American. In the rodeo event of team roping: the rider who ropes the head (as opposed to the back legs) of a steer. Cf. heeler n.² 8. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > rodeo > [noun] > participants bull rider1829 bull-dogger1907 steer roper1910 steer wrestler1910 header1927 heeler1927 pickup man1930 1927 C. McTavish in Progressive Arizona Feb. 7/2 The header and his heeler, mounted and with ropes looped and coiled, wait tensley the signal that will send them out for the test of their skill. 1948 Yuma (Arizona) Daily Sun 9 Feb. 11/2 The header ropes the steer around the head or horns and forces the animal to travel in a circle around him until the heeler can throw. 1987 Texas Monthly Nov. 193/1 The header's role is the more cerebral—it's her ability to read the body language of a steer and anticipate its moves that often determines whether the heeler will have a decent shot at its feet. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Aug. (Sports section) 6/4 In an event known as team roping, one header and one heeler work together to rope a calf while on horseback. Compounds header-board n. rare a diving board. ΚΠ 1892 Gentlewoman's Bk. Sports i. 120 We have a headerboard fixed up 7 feet above the water. 1934 E. F. Benson More Spook Stories 245 There were photographs on it, one of a boy standing on the header-board at the bathing pool about to plunge. header brick n. [compare earlier heading brick n. and heading course n. at heading n. Compounds 3] Bricklaying a brick or stone laid with its end showing in the face of the wall; cf. sense 5a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick hirne-stonec1000 parpen1252 coin1350 coin-stone1350 angler1365 parpal1369 corner-stonea1382 cunye1387 tuss1412 quoin1532 table stone1554 quoining1562 copestone1567 ground-stone1567 lock bandc1582 quinyie1588 perpender1611 whelmer1618 parpen stone1633 capstone1665 headera1684 through1683 quoin-stone1688 stretcher1693 closer1700 bed-stone1723 coping-brick1725 girder1726 footstone1728 heading brick1731 bossage1736 lewis-hole1740 shoulder1744 headstone1745 pawl1753 tail-bond1776 coping-stone1778 slocking-stone1778 throughband1794 through-stone1797 stretching-bond1805 core1823 keystone1823 tail-binder1828 stretching-stone1833 header brick1841 coign1843 pawl-stone1844 bay-stone1845 bonder1845 pillar-stone1854 bond-piece1862 stretcher-brick1867 toothing-stone1875 bond-stone1879 pierpoint1891 jumper1904 tush1905 padstone1944 1841 T. L. Walker Ess. on Archit. Pract. I. p. xiii The same is to be well and securely bonded into the thick wall of the vaults, by as many of the ‘header bricks’ as the clerk of the works shall direct. 1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Scaffolding 24 Cavities in the brickwork obtained by leaving out ‘header’ bricks at proper intervals. 2007 Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. 56 The brick flank facing the church is sprinkled with darker header bricks. header tank n. a tank for water or other liquid at the top or head of something; spec. an elevated water tank maintaining pressure in a water supply through gravity. ΚΠ 1921 U.S. Patent 1,389,745 1/2 The top header tank through which the water tubes communicate. 1946 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 50 136/2 These tubes are fitted 5 rows wide and 12 deep into header tanks, by means of gland nuts. 1990 W. A. Livesey GCSE Motor Vehicle Stud. vi. 57 As the cooling water is heated up in the cylinder block it rises through the top hose into the radiator header tank. 2012 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 2 Aug. 1 Particular attention should be paid to water storage and header tanks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1440
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