headstock
Noun
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Noun
headstock (plural headstocks)
- (mining) A headframe.
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 6
- It was a beautiful day. At Brinsley pit the white steam melted slowly in the sunshine of a soft blue sky; the wheels of the headstocks twinkled high up; the screen, shuffling its coal into the trucks, made a busy noise.
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 6
- A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that supports a rotating part
- A beam that supports a bell.
- A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
- The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
- (rail) A transverse structural member at the extreme end of a rail vehicle's underframe.
- buffer beam (rail)
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